The Liberal Self: John Stuart Mill's Moral and Political PhilosophyWendy Donner contends here that recent commentators on John Stuart Mill's thought have focused on his notions of right and obligation and have not paid as much attention to his notion of the good. Mill, she maintains, rejects the quantitative hedonism of Bentham's philosophy in favor of an expanded qualitative version. In this book she provides an account of his complex views of the good and the ways in which these views unify his moral and political thought. |
Contents
The Nature of Pleasurable | 8 |
Qualitative Hedonism | 37 |
False Friends | 46 |
A False Start | 52 |
Critique of Benthams Secondary Account | 60 |
Models of Utility | 66 |
The Sensory Evaluation of Wines | 83 |
The Doctrine of Development | 92 |
The Role of the State and Neutralism | 125 |
The Moral Arts and Sciences | 131 |
Liberalism and Individualism | 141 |
Liberty of SelfDevelopment | 160 |
Liberty and Harm to Others | 188 |
Applications of the Theory | 198 |
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argue association basic Bentham Benthamite character choices claim competent agents complex critical democracy desire desire-satisfaction devel developmental discussion distinction duties economic elements ences ethics ethology evaluation example fact feelings felicific calculus four-minute mile Fred Berger G. E. Moore goal good-making characteristics Gray Gray's hedonist human nature individual intellectual intensity and duration interpretation of Mill intuitionism James Mill Jan Narveson John Stuart Mill judges judgment kind L. W. Sumner laws liberal democracy liberalism liberty of self-development ment mental Mill's conception Mill's method Mill's principle Mill's theory Mill's views mind moral arts moral sciences moral theory negative rights objectivity participation person pleasurable experiences pleasures and pains poetry political philosophy present principle of liberty principle of utility problem properties psychological qualitative hedonism quality of pleasurable requires right to liberty satisfaction sensations social society Sosa standards theory of justice things tion Utilitarianism valuable value of pleasurable wine
References to this book
The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics Paul B. Thompson No preview available - 1995 |