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Mill and paternalism /
"Many discussions of J.S. Mill's concept of liberty focus too narrowly on On Liberty and fail to acknowledge that his treatment of related issues elsewhere may modify its leading doctrines. Mill and Paternalism demonstrates how a contextual reading suggests that in Principles of Political...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Introduction Mill, liberty and paternalism: context, intention and interpretation; Mill, liberty and paternalism; Negative liberty and ideal character; The value, rights and duties of interference: the role of On Liberty; Models of authority: Bentham, Malthus, Carlyle, the Saint-Simonians and Comte; Evidence of authority: 'henpecked' restated; Self-dependence: the critique of blind paternalism; Conclusion; Chapter 1 Intervention, progress and the state
- domestic and foreign; Mill and domestic reform; The scope of government; Taxation and inheritance; Poor relief.
- Franchise regulationsEducation; Miscellaneous issues respecting state intervention; Foreign intervention: India and Ireland; India: 'parental despotism'; Ireland and land reform; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Mill, socialism and collective autonomy; Owenism and Saint-Simonism: from the mid 1820s to c. 1840; From 'Coleridge' (1840) to 'The Claims of Labour' (1845); 1848; Land, cooperation and the 'Chapters on Socialism', 1852-73; The 'Chapters on Socialism' and the limits of Mills socialism; Conclusion: red in context?; Chapter 3 Rethinking On Liberty: superstition, expediency and family values.
- Introduction: the 'strongest case'Superstition and family values; Mill's Malthusian reputation; Conclusion; Conclusion The aims of liberty and paternalism: equal association and radical meritocracy; The argument restated; Mill and paternalism; Bibliography; Index.