John Stuart Mill: A British Socrates - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230369286 ISBN 13: 9780230369283

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Synopsis

This edited collection highlights the inquisitive and synthetic aspects of John Stuart Mill's mode of philosophising while exploring various aspects of Mill's thought, intellectual development and influence. The contributors to this volume discuss a number of Mill's ideas including those on political participation, democracy, liberty and justice.

About this title

About the Author:

Kyriakos N. Demetriou is Associate Professor in the History of Political Thought, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus, Cyprus.
 
Antis Loizeides is Researcher, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus, Cyprus.

Review:

This collection of essays, written by some of the most distinguished scholars working in Mill studies today, represents a highly original and extremely important re-evaluation of Mill's career. By exposing and exploring Mill's intellectual debt to the Socratic tradition, it will have a profound and lasting impact on future interpretations of Mill's thought, and on our understanding of utilitarian philosophy more generally.

Philip Schofield, Faculty of Laws, UCL, University of London, UK

This stimulating collection of original essays reminds modern readers just how deeply Mill's debts to Socratic 'elenchus' were intertwined with his liberal utilitarian normative commitments.

David Weinstein, Department of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forestr University, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0230369286
• ISBN 13: 9780230369283
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Demetriou K. N, Loizides A.