Reforming liberalism
Subtitle: J.S. Mill's use of ancient, religious, liberal, and romantic moralities
By: Robert Devigne.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780300112429
Subjects: Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.; Plato.; Liberalism.; Liberty.; Ethics.
Description: Robert Devigne explains how John Stuart Mill drew from ancient and romantic thought as well as past religious practices to reconcile conflicts and antinomies that were hobbling traditional liberalism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The moderns and Plato; title: Liberty and the just moral conscience; title: The cultivation of the individual and society : J.S. Mill's use of ancient and romantic dialectics; title: On liberty : overcoming the west's one-sided moral development; title: Reforming reformed religion: J.S. Mill's critique of the natural religion of the Enlightenment; title: On liberty : the summum bonum of modern liberalism; title: Mill and political philosophy.