John Stuart Mill and the art of life
By: edited by Ben Eggleston, Dale Miller, and David Weinstein.
Contributors: Eggleston, Ben.; Miller, Dale E., Ph. D.; Weinstein, D. 1949-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780195381245
Subjects: Mill, John Stuart, -- 1806-1873
Description: The 'Art of Life' is John Stuart Mill's name for his account of practical reason. In this volume, 11 leading scholars elucidate this fundamental, but widely neglected, element of Mill's thought.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Mill's rule utilitarianism in context / by Rex Martin; title: Interpreting Mill / by David Weinstein; title: Rules and their reasons : Mill on morality and instrumental rationality / by Ben Eggleston; title: Mill, rule utilitarianism, and the incoherence objection / by Dale E. Miller; title: Optimal moral rules and supererogatory acts / by Jonathan Riley; title: Morality, virtue and aesthetics in Mill's art of life / by Wendy Donner; title: Mill's incubus / by Elijah Millgram; title: Mill, education, and the good life / by Philip Kitcher; title: Taking it to heart : Mill on appropriation and the art of ethics / by Robert H. Haraldsson; title: An alternative modernity : Mill on capitalism and the quality of life / by Nadia Urbinati; title: Mill, life as art, and problems of self-description in an industrial age / by Colin Heydt.