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    John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control
    John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control
    John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control
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    John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control

    By Joseph Hamburger

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    John Stuart Mill is one of the hallowed figures of the liberal tradition, revered for his defense of liberal principles and expansive personal liberty. By examining Mill's arguments in On Liberty in light of his other writings, however, Joseph Hamburger reveals a Mill very different from the "saint of rationalism" so central to liberal thought. He shows that Mill, far from being an advocate of a maximum degree of liberty, was an advocate of liberty and control--indeed a degree of control ultimately incompatible with liberal ideals.


    Hamburger offers this powerful challenge to conventional scholarship by presenting Mill's views on liberty in the context of his ideas about, in particular, religion and historical development. The book draws on the whole range of Mill's philosophical writings and on his correspondence with, among others, Harriet Taylor Mill, Auguste Comte, and Alexander Bain to show that Mill's underlying goal was to replace the traditional religious basis of society with a form of secular religion that would rest on moral authority, individual restraint, and social control. Hamburger argues that Mill was not self-contradictory in thus championing both control and liberty. Rather, liberty and control worked together in Mill's thought as part of a balanced, coherent program of social and moral reform that was neither liberal nor authoritarian.


    Based on a lifetime's study of nineteenth-century political thought, this clearly written and forcefully argued book is a major reinterpretation of Mill's ideas and intellectual legacy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton University Press
    Release dateJun 18, 2001
    ISBN9781400823246
    John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control
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    Joseph Hamburger

    Joseph Hamburger taught at Yale University from 1957 until his death in 1997. At the time of his death, he was Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science. The author of books on James and John Stuart Mill, John Austin, and Thomas Macaulay, Professor Hamburger spent a lifetime studying political theory and, especially, nineteenth-century intellectual history.

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