Mill on Liberty: A Defence
by John Gray
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Mill on Liberty was first published in 1983 and has become a classic of Mill commentary. The second edition reproduces the text of the first in full, and in paperback for the first time. To this, John Gray adds an extensive postscript which defends the interpretation of Mill set out in the first edition, but develops radical criticisms of the substance of Millian and other liberalism.The new edition is intended as a contribution to the current debate about the foundations of liberalism, and show more it looks closely at the recent seminal contributions to liberal thought by Raz, Feinberg, R show less
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The constraints on the direct pursuit of utility imposed by the principle of liberty are themselves utility-maximizing, since they protect vital interests in security and autonomy which are central constituents of happiness and whose protection is itself instrumental to happiness.
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John Gray is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including Seven Types of Atheism, The Silence of Animals, The Immortalization Commission, Black Mass, and Straw Dogs. A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, he has been a professor of politics at Oxford, a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale, and a professor of European show more thought at the London School of Economics. He now writes full-time. show less
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- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, Philosophy, General Nonfiction
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- 323.44 — Society, government, & culture Political science Civil Rights & Liberties/ Human Rights The state and the individual Liberty
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- JC585 .M75 .G72 — Political Science Political theory Political theory. The state. Theories of the state Purpose, functions, and relations of the state
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