Mill's Progressive Principles
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 April 2013
- ISBN 9780199672141
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 238x162x25 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
David O. Brink offers a reconstruction and assessment of John Stuart Mill's contributions to the utilitarian and liberal traditions. Brink defends interpretations of key elements in Mill's moral and political thought, and shows how a perfectionist reading of his conception of happiness has a significant impact on other aspects of his philosophy.
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In Mill's Progressive Principles David Brink provides a systematic reconstruction and assessment of John Stuart Mill's contributions to the utilitarian and liberal traditions, examining his first principles and their application to issues of representative democracy and sexual equality. Brink defends novel interpretations of key elements in Mill's moral and political philosophy, including his concepts of motivation, happiness, duty, proof, harm and the harm principle, freedom of expression, anti-paternalism, representative democracy and weighted voting, and sexual equality. However, the most distinctive aspect of this account of Mill's commitments is the case it makes for a perfectionist reading of his conception of happiness and the significance this has for other aspects of his moral and political philosophy. On this perfectionist conception, the chief ingredients of happiness involve the exercise of a person's capacities for practical deliberation and decision that mark us as progressive beings. Once this perfectionist theme is made explicit, it can be shown to be central to Mill's views about utilitarianism, liberalism, rights, democratic government, and sexual equality.
Brink's book raises all the important issues in Millâs moral and political theory, but, as always, the complexities of Millâs thought defy a final settlement. The book is an outstanding contribution not only to Mill scholarship, but also to moral and political philosophy more generally.
Table of Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
A Note on Mill's Texts
Mill's Radical Background
Varieties of Motivation
Perfectionism about Happiness and Higher Pleasures
Ambivalence about Duty
The Justification of Utilitarianism
Liberal Preliminaries
Freedom of Expression in a Liberal Context
Liberal Principles Refined
Liberalism, Utilitarianism, and Rights
Liberal Democracy
Sexual Equality
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
