The Improvement of Mankind : The Social and Political Thought of John Stuart Mill / John Robson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robson, John, Author.

Series:

Studies and texts (University of Toronto. Department of English) ; Number 15.

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.

Mill, John Stuart.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 292 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Although John Stuart Mill is generally and properly known as a philosopher and political economist, his writings actually cover a wide variety of subjects. In this book Professor Robson brings together the most important strands of Mill's thought in an attempt to show that it contains a basic unity of approach, at the heart of which is his ethical system. Mill's ethical position depends on his understanding of the relation between practice and theory, and reflects his own experience, especially his "metal crisis," his appreciation of poetry, and his friendship with Harriet Taylor (who later became his wife). The study brings out the importance of the three phases in Mill's life: his early period of adherence to the ideas of James Mill and Bentham; his period of assimilation of the influences of Coleridge, Carlyle, Comte, and de Toequeville; and finally his period of mature fame, when he published his System of Logic, Principles of Political Government, Utilitarianism, and other works still central in the British liberal tradition and still used as university texts. Mill's eminence makes his thought important to anyone interested in recent political, social, economic, and philosophical trends; and his life, as his Autobiography demonstrates, has its own fascination for the general reader as well as for the student of the nineteenth century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

I. Mill's Early Years

II. Mill in Maturity

Appendix. Darwin and Marx

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

"Reprinted in 2018"--Title page verso.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7450-9

OCLC:

1129207486