Beschreibung:
John Stuart Mill is one of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century. But does he have anything to teach us today? His deep concern for freedom of the individual is thought by some to be outdated and inadequate to the cultural and religious complexities of twenty first century life.
Preface 1. Free Thought 1. Mill's Life and Work 2. Liberalism as Free Thought 3. Thinking from Within 4. Religion 2. The Good for Human Beings 1. Happiness and Self-Development 2. The Greatest Happiness Principle 3. The Liberal Ideal 4. Qualities of Happiness 5. Morality and Justice 3. Liberty 1. Liberty and Popular Sovereignty 2. The Liberty Principle 3. Spontaneity, Conflict, Progress 4. Liberty of Discussion 5. Personal Independence 4. Modernity 1. Interpreting the Modern World 2. History and Character 3. Marx and Mill on Socialism 4. Democracy 5. Reflection 1. Mill as a Late-Modern Thinker 2. Culture and Democracy 3. Equality 4. Mill and Liberalism Today 5. What Works? What Inspires? Chronology Suggestions for Further Reading