Why read Mill today? /
Skorupski, John,1946-
London : Routledge,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Free thought -- Mill's life and work -- Liberalism as free thought -- Thinking from within -- Religion -- The good for human beings -- Happiness and self-development -- The greatest happiness principle -- The liberal ideal -- Qualities of happiness -- Morality and justice -- Liberty -- Liberty and popular sovereignty -- The liberty principle -- Spontaneity, conflict, progress -- Liberty of thought and discussion -- Personal independence -- Modernity -- Interpreting the modern world -- History and character -- Marx and Mill on the good for human beings -- Democracy -- Reflection -- Mill as a late-modern thinker -- Culture and democracy -- Equality -- Mill and liberalism today -- What works? What inspires?
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.
Liberalism.
Utilitarianism.