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Mill's Progressive Principles (Hardcover)
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Mill's Progressive Principles (Hardcover)
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In Mill's Progressive Principles David Brink provides a systematic
reconstruction and assessment of John Stuart Mill's contributions
to the utilitarian and liberal traditions, examining his first
principles and their application to issues of representative
democracy and sexual equality. Brink defends novel interpretations
of key elements in Mill's moral and political philosophy, including
his concepts of motivation, happiness, duty, proof, harm and the
harm principle, freedom of expression, anti-paternalism,
representative democracy and weighted voting, and sexual equality.
However, the most distinctive aspect of this account of Mill's
commitments is the case it makes for a perfectionist reading of his
conception of happiness and the significance this has for other
aspects of his moral and political philosophy. On this
perfectionist conception, the chief ingredients of happiness
involve the exercise of a person's capacities for practical
deliberation and decision that mark us as progressive beings. Once
this perfectionist theme is made explicit, it can be shown to be
central to Mill's views about utilitarianism, liberalism, rights,
democratic government, and sexual equality.
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