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Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen - Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (Hardcover)
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Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen - Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (Hardcover)
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James Fitzjames Stephen was a distinguished jurist, a codifier of
the law in England and India, and the judge in the ill-fated
Maybrick case; a serious and prolific journalist, a pillar of the
Saturday Review and the Pall Mall Gazette. This is the first
critical edition of his major work Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, a
systematic attack on J. S. Mill's later social and political
philosophy. The text originated in a series of twenty letters to
the Pall Mall Gazette following Stephen's return from India as the
Legal Member of the Viceroy's council in 1872. It was published as
a book in 1873 and revised the following year in response to its
critics, particularly Frederic Harrison and John Morley. It is the
second edition of 1874 that forms the basis of this new edition.
Stephen's abrasive style matched his disdain for what he regarded
as Mill's enthusiasm for 'abstract' ideals such as liberty and
equality-particularly sexual equality. Against Mill's emphasis on
freedom of discussion as the most effective means of addressing
differences of thought and belief, Stephen argued that conflict
could only be resolved by the exercise of force-physical and legal.
Rejecting Mill's faith in human improvement through the exercise of
reason, he emphasised the importance of revealed religion to
morality and to the maintenance of political order. Liberty,
Equality, and Fraternity raises significant questions concerning
the limits of tolerance, the relationship between liberty to
individuality and between temporal and spiritual power in modern
society. It was memorably described by Sir Ernest Barker as 'the
finest flowering of conservative thought in the latter half of the
nineteenth century'. However, the book sought not so much to
abandon liberalism as to situate it firmly within the realm of
'experience'.
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