The Liberal Self: John Stuart Mill's Moral and Political Theory

by Wendy Donner

Book Overview

Wendy Donner contends here that recent commentators on John Stuart Mill's thought have focused on his notions of right and obligation and have not paid as much attention to his notion of the good. Mill, she maintains, rejects the quantitative hedonism of Bentham's philosophy in favor of an expanded qualitative version. In this book she provides an account of his complex views of the good and the ways in which these views unify his moral and political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801499879
• ISBN13: 9780801499876
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher