Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social PhilosophyHackett Publishing, 15 бер. 2004 р. - 352 стор. Stephen Nathanson's clear-sighted abridgment of Principles of Political Economy, Mill's first major work in moral and political philosophy, provides a challenging, sometimes surprising account of Mill's views on many important topics: socialism, population, the status of women, the cultural bases of economic productivity, the causes and possible cures of poverty, the nature of property rights, taxation, and the legitimate functions of government. Nathanson cuts through the dated and less relevant sections of this large work and includes significant material omitted in other editions, making it possible to see the connections between the views Mill expressed in Principles of Political Economy and the ideas he defended in his later works, particularly On Liberty. Indeed, studying Principles of Political Economy, Nathanson argues in his general Introduction, can help to resolve the apparent contradiction between Mill's views in On Liberty and those in Utilitarianism, making it a key text for understanding Mill’s philosophy as a whole. |
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... moral and political works, Utilitarianism and On Liberty, both of which are relatively short. It is hard to see how one could. 1 John Stuart Mill, Autobiography (London: Oxford University Press, 1931), 200. 2The inconsistency problem and ...
... moral and political thinking without reading his most extensive work on matters of economic and social policy, even if those discussions are interspersed among other matters that do not seem as relevant philosophically. But Principles ...
... moral and political philosophy. Utilitarianism and On Liberty are both shorter and more narrowly focused than Principles of Political Economy. Principles of Political Economy is a survey of an entire field, while Utilitarianism and On ...
... moral and political philosophy. If Mill's philosophy is inconsistent, however, it is nothing for the rest of us to gloat over. Like Mill, most of us probably have some sympathy both for the overall betterment of human life expressed by ...
... moral aversion to birth control. In fact, as a young man, Mill was arrested for distributing information about birth control methods.20 In Principles of Political Economy, he made it clear, too, that he thought the creation of children ...