Mill's progressive principles

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David O. Brink offers a reconstruction and assessment of John Stuart Mill's contributions to the utilitarian and liberal traditions. Brink defends interpretations of key elements in Mill's moral and political thought, and shows how a perfectionist reading of his conception of happiness has a significant impact on other aspects of his philosophy.

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Full title :Mill's progressive principles / David O. Brink.

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Publication Date:2013.

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Description:1 ressource en ligne

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ISBN:9780191652301, 019165230X
oclc:on1004157793
LC Classification:JC574
Dewey Decimal:320.512092

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""A note on Millâ€?s texts""; ""1. Millâ€?s radical background""; ""1. Psychological egoism""; ""2. Utilitarianism""; ""3. Evaluative hedonism""; ""4. Duty and interest""; ""5. Why utilitarianism?""; ""2. Varieties of motivation""; ""6. Millâ€?s apparent egoism""; ""7. Millâ€?s rejection of psychological egoism""; ""8. Reservations about the Radical legacy""; ""9. The sanctions of utilitarianism""; ""10. The demands of utilitarianism""; ""3. Perfectionism about happiness and higher pleasures""; ""11. The higher pleasures doctrine""

""12. Subjective and objective pleasures""""13. Problems for hedonism about higher pleasures""; ""14. Attitudinal and hybrid hedonism""; ""15. Perfectionism""; ""16. Reconciling the elements of happiness""; ""17. Perfectionism about happiness""; ""18. Perfectionism and pluralism about happiness""; ""19. Unanswered questions about perfection and happiness""; ""4. Ambivalence about duty""; ""20. Varieties of utilitarianism""; ""21. Utilitarianism as a standard of conduct""; ""22. The case for act utilitarianism""; ""23. Felicific tendencies""; ""24. Principles and rules""

""25. Sanction utilitarianism""""26. An appa…