John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life

by Dale E. Miller and David Weinstein

Book Overview

The "Art of Life" is John Stuart Mill's name for his account of practical reason. In this volume, eleven leading scholars elucidate this fundamental, but widely neglected, element of Mill's thought. Mill divides the Art of Life into three "departments" "Morality, Prudence or Policy, and Aesthetics."

In the volume's first section, Rex Martin, David Weinstein, Ben Eggleston, and Dale E. Miller investigate the relation between the departments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199931976
• ISBN13: 9780199931972
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"