Blame for the putative failure of liberalism in late-nineteenth-century Japan and China has often been placed on an insufficient grasp of modernity among East Asian leaders or on their cultural ...commitments to traditional values. InPersonal Liberty and Public Good, Douglas Howland refutes this view, turning to the central text of liberalism in that era: John Stuart Mill?sOn Liberty.
Howland offers absorbing analyses of the translations of the book into Japanese and Chinese, which at times reveal astonishing emendations. As with their political leaders, Mill?s Japanese and Chinese translators feared individual liberty could undermine the public good and standards for public behaviour, and so introduced their own moral values ? Christianity and Confucianism, respectively? intoOn Liberty, filtering its original meaning. Howland mirrors this mistrust of individual liberty in Asia with critiques of the work in England, which itself had trouble adopting liberalism.
Personal Liberty and Public Goodis a compelling addition to the corpus of writing on the work of John Stuart Mill. It will be of great interest to historians of political thought, liberalism, and translation, as well as scholars of East Asian studies.
Although Mill regardedConsiderations on Representative Governmentas a mature statement of his theory of democracy, critics have tended to treat it less seriously than most of his other major works. ...Dennis Thompson argues that this neglect has led to inadequate interpretations of Mill's thought on democracy. Drawing where appropriate on other writings by Mill, the author restores a balanced view by studying the structure of the theory expounded inRepresentative Government.
Representative Governmentis shown to be more coherent and systematic than has generally been assumed. In the first two chapters the author examines separately Mill's views of political participation and competence. He then considers the philosopher's effort to combine participation and competence at any particular time in a theory of government and to reduce conflict between them over time in a theory of development. Basic features of Mill's view are subjected to critical scrutiny, and modifications are suggested to overcome the deficiencies noted. Throughout, Mill's claims are compared with the ideas and findings of recent social science, leading to the conclusion that his theory remains a valuable resource for contemporary thinking about democracy.
Originally published in 1979.
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Many discussions of J. S. Mill's concept of liberty focus too narrowly on On Liberty and fail to acknowledge that his treatment of related issues elsewhere may modify its leading doctrines. Mill and ...Paternalism demonstrates how a contextual reading suggests that in Principles of Political Economy, and also his writings on Ireland, India and on domestic issues like land reform, Mill proposed a substantially more interventionist account of the state than On Liberty seems to imply. This helps to explain Mill's sympathies for socialism after 1848, as well as his Malthusianism and feminism, which, in conjunction with Harriet Taylor's views, are central to his later discussions of the family and marriage. Feminism, indeed, is shown to provide the answer to the problem which most agitated Mill, overpopulation. Thus Gregory Claeys sheds new lights on many of Mill's overarching preoccupations, including the theory of liberty at the heart of On Liberty.
John Stuart Mill observed in his Autobiography that he was a rare case in nineteenth-century Britain because he had not lost his religion but never had any. He was a freethinker from beginning to ...end. What is not often realized, however, is that Mill’s life was nevertheless impinged upon by religion at every turn. This is true both of the close relationships that shaped him and of his own thoughts. Mill was a religious sceptic, but not the kind of person which that term usually conjures up. The unexpected prominence of spirituality is not only there in Mill’s late, startling essay, ‘Theism’, in which he makes the case for hope in God and in Christ. It is everywhere—in his immediate family, his best friends, and his vision for the future. It is even there in such a seemingly unlikely place as his Logic, which repeatedly addresses religious themes. John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life is a full biography which follows one of Britain’s most well-respected intellectuals through all of the key moments in his life from falling in love to sitting in Parliament and beyond. It also explores his classic works including, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, Utilitarianism, and The Subjection of Women. In this well-researched study which offers original findings and insights, you will encounter the Mill you never knew; the Mill that even some of his closest disciples never knew. This is John Stuart Mill, the Saint of Rationalism—a secular life and a spiritual life.
Nicholas Capaldi's 2004 biography of John Stuart Mill traces the ways in which Mill's many endeavours are related and explores the significance of Mill's contribution to metaphysics, epistemology, ...ethics, social and political philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of education. He shows how Mill was groomed for his life by both his father James Mill, and Jeremy Bentham, the two most prominent philosophical radicals of the early nineteenth century. Yet Mill revolted against this education and developed friendships with both Thomas Carlyle and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who introduced him to Romanticism and political conservatism. A special feature of this biography is the attention devoted to his relationship with Harriet Taylor. No one exerted a greater influence than the woman he was eventually to marry. Nicholas Capaldi reveals just how deep her impact was on Mill's thinking about the emancipation of women.
Sin embargo, quizá sea mejor ir por partes. Pero, para apreciar adecuadamente el fuste de este ensayo, es capital señalar el tejido político en el que ve la luz y donde se está librando una guerra ...cultural en el sentido en el que, en los 90, James Davison Hunter popularizara la expresión, librada en muchos frentes -progresividad fiscal, derechos civiles, laicismo o libertad sexualy y a cada vez más latitudes. En su estela se han despachado combates en los que determinadas conquistas son presentadas como el fruto de una evolución espontánea sustanciada en y por una ideología que, en tanto que disponible, puede ser revertida o al menos discutida en igualdad de condiciones por otra de signo contrario, mediando una operación conceptual por la cual se reduce a una simple discusión entre partes, lo que no deja de ser una justificación falsamente argumental, por tanto falaz, con un proyecto dogmático de normativización social. Sin embargo, sí que extraña la ausencia de A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, de Mary Wollstonecraft, así como la de The Subjection of Women, del ya citado John Stuart Mill -con la colaboración de su esposa, Harriet Taylor Mill- , dos obras fundamentales del pensamiento radical británico, de tanto peso en la génesis del movimiento feminista.
Woman has been defined in classic political theory as elusive yet dangerous, by her nature fundamentally destructive to public life. In the view of Linda M. G. Zerilli, however, gender relations ...shape the very grammar of citizenship. In deeply textured interpretations of Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Zerilli recasts our understanding of woman as the agent of social chaos and makes a major advance for feminist political theory.
This paper is an essay exploring the happiness concept - as its broad scope of work. The purpose is to investigate the concept of happiness from macroeconomic and microeconomic standpoints (social ...and organizational respectively) and eventually to propose a managerial point of view - centered on organizational happiness. The authors investigate the concept and typology of happiness, the theories on happiness, individual and social happiness as well as their measuring methods - largely based on secondary research (literature survey and research reports). Aiming at finding means to assess organizational happiness, two methodology options were used in this respect: bottom-up (from individual to social happiness) and top-down approach (from macro to microeconomic level) respectively: (i) bottom-up approach presented several paths for assessing the organizational happiness starting from individual happiness assessment; (ii) top-down approach (following the happiness index pattern, used for assessing the social happiness) and adapt its configuration to organizations. As a result of critical analysis - from the authors' economic and managerial standpoint - organization happiness assessment framework was developed, which is a contribution to management mechanisms for influencing the organization happiness - besides completing the literature gap in this respect. Implications of this study are important for many practitioners (organizations' managers interested to stimulate the happiness-based performance of their organizations) as well as for theorists eager to further explore the multiple sides of organization happiness and management mechanisms.
