John Stuart Mill's platonic heritage : happiness through character / Antis Loizides.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loizides, Antis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.

Mill, John Stuart.

Plato.

Happiness.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 248 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]

Contents:

Part I Classical Reception in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Chapter 1 Reform Through Classics 3

Contesting the Place of Classics 3

Athenian Institutions and Reform 5

Concluding Remarks 13

Notes 15

Chapter 2 Plato in Pre-Victorian Britain 21

Rediscovering Plato 21

A Neoplatonist Born Out of Due Season 24

Socrates in Early-Nineteenth Century 27

Socrates, Plato and the Utilitarians 30

Concluding Remarks 33

Notes 37

Chapter 3 James Mill on Plato 43

Radicalizing Plato 44

James Mill's 'Platonism' 50

Concluding Remarks 55

Notes 56

Part II John Stuart Mill's Appropriation of Plato

Chapter 4 Educative Past 65

Reforming Educational Practice 66

Reforming Social Institutions 69

Reforming Political Practice 71

Concluding Remarks 76

Notes 78

Chapter 5 Reading Plato 85

Mill's First Reading: Defining Plato's Creed 85

Mill's Second Reading: Grote's Plato 91

Concluding Remarks 98

Notes 99

Chapter 6 On Plato's Method 105

Mill's Intellectual Development and Plato 105

Mill's Dialectical Method 110

Concluding Remarks 117

Notes 118

Part III John Stuart Mill's Platonic Heritage

Chapter 7 The Art of Life 125

Reason and Action 125

Mill and the Art of Life 130

An Education for the Art of Life 140

Concluding Remarks 144

Notes 146

Chapter 8 Character, Ethology and Virtue 153

Defining Character 153

Means and Ends of Character Formation 161

Concluding Remarks 170

Notes 171

Chapter 9 Eudaimonia and Utility 177

Utility or Eudaimonia? 178

Direction, Pleasures and Lives 183

Concluding Remarks 197

Notes 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739173930

0739173936

OCLC:

822018934