John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life

by Eggleston, Ben; Miller, Dale E.; Weinstein, David

• ISBN13: 9780199869213
• ISBN10: 0199869219
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Ben Eggleston is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas.

Dale E. Miller is Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University.

David Weinstein is Professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Section One
Chapter One: Mill's Rule Utilitarianism in Context, Rex Martin
Chapter Two: Interpreting Mill, David Weinstein
Chapter Three: Rules and Their Reasons: Mill on Morality and Instrumental Rationality, Ben Eggleston
Chapter Four: Mill, Rule Utilitarianism, and the Incoherence Objection, Dale E. Miller

Section Two
Chapter Five: Optimal Moral Rules and Supererogatory Acts, Jonathan Riley
Chapter Six: Morality, Virtue and Aesthetics in Mill's Art of Life, Wendy Donner

Section Three
Chapter Seven: Mill's Incubus, Elijah Millgram
Chapter Eight: Mill, Education, and the Good Life, Philip Kitcher

Section Four
Chapter Nine: Taking it to Heart: Mill on Appropriation and the Art of Ethics, Robert H. Haraldsson
Chapter Ten: An Alternative Modernity: Mill on Capitalism and the Quality of Life, Nadia Urbinati
Chapter Eleven: Mill, Life as Art, and Problems of Self-Description in an Industrial Age, Colin Heydt