Starting with Mill

by Fitzpatrick, John R.

• ISBN13: 9781847062406
• ISBN10: 1847062407
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-05
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

John Stuart Mill was one of the most important and influential British philosophers. When one considers his overall intellectual contributions, Mill is arguably the most important intellectual figure of the nineteenth century. Covering all the key concepts of his work, Starting with Mill provides an accessible introduction to the ideas of this hugely significant thinker.

Author Biography

John R. Fitzpatrick is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA.

Table of Contents

Chronology	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Mill and the Modern World	p. 1
Modern Philosophy	p. 1
Metaphysics and Epistemology	p. 4
British Empiricism	p. 8
Logic and A System of Logic	p. 15
Hume's Fork	p. 17
Kant's Copernican Revolution	p. 19
Rejecting a Priori Knowledge	p. 22
Psychology and Associationism	p. 28
James Mill and Associationism	p. 30
Mill's Education and Early Influences	p. 33
James Mill	p. 33
John Stuart Mill's Education	p. 37
Mill's Introduction to Bentham	p. 42
The East India Company	p. 43
Harriet Taylor	p. 44
The Ancient Greeks	p. 45
The Dialogues of Plato	p. 46
The Logic of Aristotle	p. 49
Plato and Utilitarianism	p. 52
Liberalism and On Liberty	p. 54
Classical Economics and Adam Smith	p. 54
Smith and the Division of Labor	p. 59
On Liberty and the Autobiography	p. 61
The Harm Principle	p. 66
The Liberty Principle	p. 67
Mill's Dialectic	p. 68
Freedom of Expression and Individuality	p. 70
The Utility of Experiments in Living	p. 72
The Final Formulation of the Liberty Principle	p. 76
Mill's Minimalist Utilitarianism	p. 81
Mill's Minimalist Ethics	p. 81
Edwards' Reading of Mill	p. 82
A Point of Clarification	p. 85
Philosophy and Fashion	p. 86
Urmson's Reexamination	p. 88
The Difficulty with the Maximizing Reading	p. 89
The Minimalist Reading	p. 90
Mill and Moral Extremism	p. 92
Mill's utilitarianism and On Liberty	p. 96
Utilitarianism and A System of Logic	p. 98
The Principle of Utility	p. 104
Utility and Character Formation	p. 108
The Choice of Hercules	p. 112
Mill And Human Rights	p. 114
Racial and Gender Justice	p. 114
Kant on Race	p. 115
Racial Blindness	p. 116
Mill on Race	p. 118
Kant and Women	p. 121
Mill and Feminist Activism	p. 124
The Historical Mill and the Historical Kant	p. 124
Kant and Animals	p. 125
Kant and the Capacity for Rationality	p. 128
Bentham and Animals	p. 132
Bentham on Paederasty	p. 133
Classical Utilitarianism and Rights	p. 136
Utilitarianism, Egalitarianism, and the Right to Equal Consideration	p. 139
Modern Ethics, Utilitarianism, and Kantianism	p. 146
Two Concepts of Liberty	p. 148
Universal Declaration of Human Rights	p. 150
The Trolley Problem	p. 152
The Two Mills	p. 154
Notes	p. 159
Further Reading	p. 166
Bibliography	p. 169
Index	p. 177
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