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John Stuart Mill [Book Review]

Karl Britton

Philosophy 45 (174):338 - 340 (1970)

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Between Autonomy and State Regulation: J.S. Mill's Elastic Paternalism.Raphael Cohen-Almagor - 2012 - Philosophy 87 (4):557-582.details This paper analyses J.S. Mill's theory on the relationships between individual autonomy and State powers. It will be argued that there is a significant discrepancy between Mill's general liberal statements aimed to secure individual largest possible autonomy and the specific examples which provide the government with quite wide latitude for interference in the public and private spheres. The paper outlines the boundaries of government interference in the Millian theory. Subsequently it describes Mill's elastic paternalism designed to prevent people from inflicting (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
Mill's “Proof” of the Principle of Utility: A More than Half-Hearted Defense.Geoffrey Sayre-Mccord - 2001 - Social Philosophy and Policy 18 (2):330.details How many serious mistakes can a brilliant philosopher make in a single paragraph? Many think that Mill answers this question by example—in the third paragraph of Chapter IV of Utilitarianism. Here is the notorious paragraph: The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it: and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 8 citations
(1 other version)Fighting electoral corruption in the Victorian era: An overlooked dimension of John Stuart Mill’s political thought.William Selinger - 2019 - European Journal of Political Theory 18 (3):415-436.details For nearly half a century John Stuart Mill was a major critic of the forms of electoral corruption prevalent in Victorian England. Yet this political commitment has been largely overlooked by scholars. This article offers the first synoptic account of Mill’s writings against corruption. It argues that Mill’s opposition to corruption was not accidental or temperamental, but sprung from fundamental principles of his political thought. It also shows that Mill’s opposition to electoral corruption put him at odds with other leading (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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