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Why Read Mill Today? (Hardcover)
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Why Read Mill Today? (Hardcover)
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John Stuart Mill is one of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth
century. But does he have anything to teach us today? His deep
concern for freedom of the individual is thought by some to be
outdated and inadequate to the cultural and religious complexities
of twenty-first century life.
In this succinct and shrewd book, John Skorupski argues that Mill
is a profound and inspiring social and political thinker from whom
we still have much to learn. He reflects on Mill's central
arguments in his most famous works, including "Utilitarianism"
""and "On Liberty," and traces their implications for democratic
politics. With the use of topical and controversial examples,
including privacy, religious intolerance, and freedom of speech, he
makes Mill's concerns our own at a time when what liberalism means,
and why it matters, is once again in dispute.
He concludes that Mill's place in the pantheon of "great thinkers"
rests not only on his specific political andsocial doctrines, but
above all on his steadfastly generous and liberal vision of human
beings, their relations to one another, and what makes life worth
living.
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