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John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (Paperback)
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John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (Paperback)
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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 of morality and
prudence. Their papers ask whether Mill is a rule utilitarian and,
if so, whether his practical philosophy must be incoherent. The
second section contains papers by Jonathan Riley and Wendy Donner,
who explore the relation between the departments of morality and
aesthetics. They discuss issues ranging from supererogation to
aesthetic pleasure and humanity's relationship with nature. The
papers in the third section consider the Art of Life's axiological
first principle, the principle of utility. Elijah Millgram contends
that Mill's own life refutes his claim that the Art of Life has a
single axiological first principle. Philip Kitcher maintains that
Mill has a dynamic axiology requiring us to continually refine our
conception of the good. In the final section, three papers address
what it means to put the Art of Life into practice. Robert
Haraldsson locates an 'Art of Ethics' in On Liberty that is in
tension with the Art of Life. Nadia Urbinati plumbs the classical
roots of Mill's view of the good life. Finally, Colin Heydt
develops Mill's suggestion that we regard our own lives as works of
art.
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