Explanation of the book
Rosen explores John Stuart Mill's complex relationship with other contemporary thinkers, including Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, Auguste Comte, George Grote, and Harriet Taylor Mill, and with his philosophical sources, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, and Hume. He also charts Mill's influence on subsequent philosophers, logicians, and economists, focusing on his approaches to his active personal study of logic and his research in political economy, which provided new interpretations of his ideas about liberty, justice, equality, and utility.
Section: Political books
Number of pages: 447 pages
Rosen explores John Stuart Mill's complex relationship with other contemporary thinkers, including Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, Auguste Comte, George Grote, and Harriet Taylor Mill, and with his philosophical sources, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, and Hume. He also charts Mill's influence on subsequent philosophers, logicians, and economists, focusing on his approaches to his active personal study of logic and his research in political economy, which provided new interpretations of his ideas about liberty, justice, equality, and utility.
Mill - Frederick
229 kr