A companion to Mill / edited by Christopher Macleod and Dale E. Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Macleod, Christopher, editor.

Series:

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 63.

Old Dominion University faculty author : Philosophy.

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.

Mill, John Stuart.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 604 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Southern Gate, Chinhester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley Blackwell, [2017]

System Details:

Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).

Summary:

This Companion offers a state-of-the-art survey of the work of John Stuart Mill - one which covers the historical influences on Mill, his theoretical, moral and social philosophy, as well as his relation to contemporary movements. Its contributors include both senior scholars with established expertise in Mill's thought and new emerging interpreters. Each essay acts as a "go-to" resource for those seeking to understand an aspect of Mill's thought or to familiarise themselves with the contours of a debate within the scholarship. The Companion is a key reference on Mill's theory of liberty and utilitarianism, but also provides a valuable resource on lesser-known aspects of his work, including his epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language. The volume is divided into six sections. Part I covers Mill's life, his immediate posthumous reputation, and his own telling of his life-story. Part II brings together an accessible and comprehensive summary of the various influences on Mill's thought. Part III offers an account of the foundations of Mill's philosophy and his thought on key philosophic topics. Parts IV and V tackle issues from Mill's moral and social philosophy. Part VI concludes with a treatment of the broader aspects of Mill's thought, tracing his relation to major movements in philosophy.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Preface

Note on Citations

Part I Mill's Autobiography and Biography

Chapter 1 Mill's Mind: A Biographical Sketch

Notes

References

Chapter 2 Mill's Epiphanies

1. First Epiphany

2. Second Epiphany

3. Bentham's Two Faces

4. From Revolution to Reform

Chapter 3 The Afterlife of John Stuart Mill, 1874-1879

1. Immortalizing Mill

2. Religious Controversy

3. The Character Question

4. Politics

5. Helen Taylor and the Chapters on Socialism

6. Conclusion

Further Reading

Chapter 4 Mill's Autobiography as Literature

1. An Artifact

2. In a Genre

3. Necessary Form

4. Summary

Part II Influences on Mill's Thought

Chapter 5 Mill and the Classics

1. Plato's Moral Quandary

2. Reforming Plato's Dialectic

3. Regenerating Human Agency

4. Athens and Sparta

5. Spartan Moral Education

6. The Athenian Will

Chapter 6 Roots of Mill's Radicalism

1. Radical Practice

2. Philosophic Radicalism

3. Bentham and Radical Democracy

4. Bentham's Philosophic Radicalism

5. Mill's Revision of Radicalism

Chapter 7 British Critics of Utilitarianism

1. Becoming Acquainted: Mill, Coleridge, Maurice and Sterling

2. Maurice and Sterling: Assailants of Benthamism

3. Coleridge's Clerisy

4. Carlylean Corpuscles

5. Macaulay's Assault

Chapter 8 Harriet Taylor Mill

1. Early Life, First Meeting, and Friendship

2. Paris and the Great Utilitarian Compromise

3. Withdrawal from Society and Socialism

4. Marriage, Death, and Religion

Chapter 9 The French Influence.

1. Emancipation and Revolutions: Mill's Early Discovery of France and its History

2. Administering Society: The Saint Simonians

3. "Positive Philosophy" or "Positive Politics"? Auguste Comte

4. The Uncertain Prospects of Democracy: Alexis de Tocqueville

5. The History of Liberty: François Guizot

6. The Claims of Justice: 1848, Socialism, and Communism

Part III Foundations of Mill's Thought

Chapter 10 Psychology, Associationism, and Ethology

1. Some Background

2. James Mill's Hard-Determinist Ethology

3. J.S. Mill's Logic

4. Mill's Autobiography

Chapter 11 Mill on Race and Gender

1. Gender

2. Race

3. Conclusion

Chapter 12 Mill on Logic

1. The Nature of Logic

2. Deduction

3. Empiricism in Logic

4. Deduction Revisited

5. Induction

Chapter 13 Mill's Epistemology

1. Mill's Foundationalism

2. Justifying Inductive Reasoning

3. The Problem of Perception

4. Mill on our Knowledge of "Necessary" Truths

5. Mill on the "Reduction" of Deductive Reasoning to Inductive Reasoning

6. Mill's Methods

7. Mill and Moral Epistemology

Note

Chapter 14 Mill's Philosophy of Language

1. Propositions and Their Constituents

2. Connotation and Denotation

3. The Import of Propositions

4. Verbal and Real Propositions

5. Mill and Contemporary Philosophy of Language

Chapter 15 Mill on Metaphysics

1. Introduction

2. What is Metaphysics?

3. Categorizing Mill

4. J.S. Mill as Copernican

5. World

6. Mind

7. Free Will

Chapter 16 Mill's Philosophy of Science

2. The Aims of the Sciences

3. The Structure and Methods of the Sciences.

4. Whewell's Critique of Mill and its Implications for Philosophy of Science

Chapter 17 Mill's Aesthetics

2. What is Poetry?

3. Mill's Re-discovery of Poetry

4. The Artist and the Scientist

5. Mill, Poetry, and Bentham's Omissions

Chapter 18 Mill on History

1. Directionalism and Historicism

2. Mill on Directionalism and Historicism

3. Combining Directionalism and Historicism

Chapter 19 Mill's Philosophy of Religion

1. Mill's Position and Historical Climate

2. Religious Morality

3. A Religion of Humanity

4. God, Afterlife, and Miracles

5. Rational Belief and Imaginative Hope

6. Assessment of Mill's Philosophy of Religion

Part IV Mill's Moral Philosophy

Chapter 20 Mill's Art of Life

1. Arts and Sciences Distinguished: Metaethical Mill?

2. The Content of the Art of Life

3. The Art of Life and Mill's Moral Philosophy: Mill's Utilitarianism and Utilitarianism

4. Rules in The Art of Life: Mill Wasn't a Rule Utilitarian

Chapter 21 Mill's Conception of Happiness

1. Happiness and Pleasure

2. Mill's "Proof"

3. Qualitative Hedonism

4. Hedonism Reconsidered

Chapter 22 The Proof

1. Context and Importance of the Proof

2. Reconstruction of the Proof

3. Critical Analysis of the Proof

Chapter 23 Mill on Utilitarian Sanctions

1. Why a Utilitarian Conscience?

2. Developing a Utilitarian Conscience

3. The Natural and Normal Utilitarian Conscience

4. The Link with Punishment

5. Utility in the Largest Sense

Chapter 24 Mill's Moral Standard

2. Intention, Aggregation, and Other Issues: A Brief Overview

3. Act Utilitarianism

4. Rule Utilitarianism.

5. Sanction Utilitarianism

Chapter 25 Mill on Justice and Rights

1. Liberal Rights

2. Liberal Rights and Progressive Happiness

3. Justice, Rights, and Equality

4. Sexual Equality, Rights, and Justice

5. Justice, Rights, and Duty

6. The Sanction Theory of Rights

7. Rights as Secondary Principles

8. Rights as Pre-Eminent Goods

9. Conclusion

Chapter 26 Mill and Virtue

1. Virtue and its Value: Chapter 2 of Utilitarianism

2. Virtue and Happiness: Chapter 4 of Utilitarianism

3. Moral and Self‐Regarding Virtues and Vices

4. Duty, Virtue, and the Art of Life

5. Individuality, Malleability, Relativity

Part V Mill's Social Philosophy

Chapter 27 The Harm Principle

1. The Harm Principle and the Essay On Liberty

2. What the Principle Does and Does Not Say

3. The Theory of Liberty as a Whole

4. The Weighing of Utilities

5. Toward Moral Foundations

6. The Art of Morality

7. The Content of Substantive Moral Requirement

8. Mill as Avant-Garde

Chapter 28 Mill on Individuality

2. Millian Individuality: The Fundamentals

3. Contemporary Applications of Millian Individuality

4. Mill's Liberty Principle and Theory of Justice and Rights

Chapter 29 Mill on Freedom of Speech

1. Freedom of Speech and the Principle of Liberty

2. Limits of Speech and the Corn Dealer Example

3. Agency and Self-Development

Chapter 30 Mill on Democracy Revisited

1. The Development of Mill's Views on Democracy Prior to 1861: From "Spiritual Power" to "The Principle of Antagonism"

2. Mill's Case for Representative Government in the Considerations

3. Potential Dangers of Democracy.

4. How to Make the Most of Democracy: Mill's Constitutional Proposals

5. Conclusion: Elitist or Democrat?

Chapter 31 Mill on the Family

1. Mill's Experiences of Family

2. Critique of Victorian Marriage Laws

3. Marriage Between Equals

4. Parents and Children

5. The Family as a "School in the Relation of Equality"

Chapter 32 Mill's Normative Economics

1. Is Normative Economics an Independent Field for Mill?

2. The Sharp Positive/Normative Distinction Questioned

3. Economic Freedom in Mill's Normative Economics

4. Mill's Analysis of Socialism: Drawing the Elements Together

Chapter 33 Mill on Education and Schooling

1. Mill's Education and Intellectual Heritage

2. Direct and Indirect Education

3. Controversies in Education

4. Conclusion

Chapter 34 Mill on Colonialism

2. Mill's Historical Milieu

3. Reconstructing Mill

Part VI Mill and Later Movements in Philosophy

Chapter 35 Mill, German Idealism, and the Analytic/Continental Divide

1. Bentham and Coleridge

2. Mill and Schiller

3. Two Schools or Three?

4. The Analytic/Continental Divide

5. The Unbearable Elusiveness of Being

Chapter 36 Mill and Modern Utilitarianism

1. What Kind of Utilitarian Was Mill?

2. Pleasure and Well-Being

3. The Case for Utilitarianism

4. Toward a More Refined Utilitarianism

5. Concluding Remarks

Chapter 37 Mill and Modern Liberalism

2. The Arguments of On Liberty

3. Mill and Public Reason Liberalism

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118736463

111873646X

9781118736739

1118736737

OCLC:

953919199