Tim Beaumont
Biographic Data
| ID | 2221063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Beaumont |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Beaumont |
| SIGNATURE | BEAUMONT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shenzhen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0778-8027 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Is Mill a Liberal Nationalist
Within nationality studies, the 19 th -century philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) is typically presented as the founding father of liberal-nationalism because of his warning that liberal democratic institutions need to be embedded within the framework of a mononational state. However, the leading Mill scholar in the field, Georgios Varouxakis, has long challenged this designation. Indeed, in the absence of any attempt by other scholars to r…
Staging the Chinese Civil War in a Chinese comedy
The Interrupted Dream, a Chinese comic drama that premiered in 2021, illustrates the power of comedy to address serious themes like war. Set against the backdrop of the Chinese Civil War (1920s–1940s), the play contrasts revolutionary and traditional artistic forms, revealing the intricate relationship between art and politics. Its comic appeal emerges from character interactions that lead to misunderstandings, drawing on the audience’s awareness…
John Stuart Mill on the Suez Canal and the limits of self-defence
Michael Walzer's use of John Stuart Mill's A Few Words on Non-Intervention (1859) helped to inaugurate it as a canonical text of international theory. However, Walzer's use of the text was highly selective because he viewed the first half as a historically parochial discussion of British foreign policy, and his interest in the second was restricted to the passages in which Mill proposes principles of international morality to govern foreign milit…
Mill and Acton on liberty, nationality and multinational states
Mill's System of Logic (1843) indicates that the definition of ‘nationality’ he offered in Considerations on Representative Government (1861) is not a throwaway comment but a carefully considered causal hypothesis tailored to his politico‐ethological research programme. This matters because Lord Acton's critique of Mill's claim that free institutions are almost impossible in multinational states ignored the definition, thereby obscuring subsequen…
J. S. Mill's Anti-Imperialist Defence of Empire
It is possible to distinguish between empire , as a form of political order, and imperialism , as a process of aggressive expansion. Mill's liberalism allows for a legitimate empire, in which a civilized state rules a less civilized foreign people paternalistically to prepare them for liberal democratic self-rule. However, it rejects paternalistic imperialism, in the sense of aggression designed to establish such an empire. Apparent textual evide…
Kymlicka’s Alignment of Mill and Engels
John Stuart Mill claims that free institutions are next to impossible in a multinational state. According to Will Kymlicka, this leads him to embrace policies kindred to those of Friedrich Engels, aimed at promoting mononational states in Europe through coercive assimilation. Given Mill’s harm principle, such coercive assimilation would have to be justified either paternalistically, in terms of its civilizing effects upon the would-be assimilated…
Mr. Donkey from Stage to Screen
J.S. Mill on Calliclean Hedonism and the Value of Pleasure
Maximizing Hedonism maintains that the most pleasurable pleasures are the best. Francis Bradley argues that this is either incompatible with Mill’s Qualitative Hedonism, or renders the latter redundant. Some ‘sympathetic’ interpreters respond that Mill was either a Non-Maximizing Hedonist or a Non-Hedonist. However, Bradley’s argument is fallacious, and these ‘sympathetic’ interpretations cannot provide adequate accounts of: Mill’s identification…
J. S. Mill's Anti-Imperialist Defence of Empire
It is possible to distinguish between empire , as a form of political order, and imperialism , as a process of aggressive expansion. Mill's liberalism allows for a legitimate empire, in which a civilized state rules a less civilized foreign people paternalistically to prepare them for liberal democratic self-rule. However, it rejects paternalistic imperialism, in the sense of aggression designed to establish such an empire. Apparent textual evide…
Kymlicka’s Alignment of Mill and Engels
John Stuart Mill claims that free institutions are next to impossible in a multinational state. According to Will Kymlicka, this leads him to embrace policies kindred to those of Friedrich Engels, aimed at promoting mononational states in Europe through coercive assimilation. Given Mill’s harm principle, such coercive assimilation would have to be justified either paternalistically, in terms of its civilizing effects upon the would-be assimilated…
J.S. Mill on Calliclean Hedonism and the Value of Pleasure
Maximizing Hedonism maintains that the most pleasurable pleasures are the best. Francis Bradley argues that this is either incompatible with Mill’s Qualitative Hedonism, or renders the latter redundant. Some ‘sympathetic’ interpreters respond that Mill was either a Non-Maximizing Hedonist or a Non-Hedonist. However, Bradley’s argument is fallacious, and these ‘sympathetic’ interpretations cannot provide adequate accounts of: Mill’s identification…
J. S. Mill's Anti-Imperialist Defence of Empire
It is possible to distinguish between empire , as a form of political order, and imperialism , as a process of aggressive expansion. Mill's liberalism allows for a legitimate empire, in which a civilized state rules a less civilized foreign people paternalistically to prepare them for liberal democratic self-rule. However, it rejects paternalistic imperialism, in the sense of aggression designed to establish such an empire. Apparent textual evide…
Kymlicka’s Alignment of Mill and Engels
John Stuart Mill claims that free institutions are next to impossible in a multinational state. According to Will Kymlicka, this leads him to embrace policies kindred to those of Friedrich Engels, aimed at promoting mononational states in Europe through coercive assimilation. Given Mill’s harm principle, such coercive assimilation would have to be justified either paternalistically, in terms of its civilizing effects upon the would-be assimilated…
Mr. Donkey from Stage to Screen
Mill and Acton on liberty, nationality and multinational states
Mill's System of Logic (1843) indicates that the definition of ‘nationality’ he offered in Considerations on Representative Government (1861) is not a throwaway comment but a carefully considered causal hypothesis tailored to his politico‐ethological research programme. This matters because Lord Acton's critique of Mill's claim that free institutions are almost impossible in multinational states ignored the definition, thereby obscuring subsequen…
John Stuart Mill on the Suez Canal and the limits of self-defence
Michael Walzer's use of John Stuart Mill's A Few Words on Non-Intervention (1859) helped to inaugurate it as a canonical text of international theory. However, Walzer's use of the text was highly selective because he viewed the first half as a historically parochial discussion of British foreign policy, and his interest in the second was restricted to the passages in which Mill proposes principles of international morality to govern foreign milit…
Is Mill a Liberal Nationalist
Within nationality studies, the 19 th -century philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) is typically presented as the founding father of liberal-nationalism because of his warning that liberal democratic institutions need to be embedded within the framework of a mononational state. However, the leading Mill scholar in the field, Georgios Varouxakis, has long challenged this designation. Indeed, in the absence of any attempt by other scholars to r…
Staging the Chinese Civil War in a Chinese comedy
The Interrupted Dream, a Chinese comic drama that premiered in 2021, illustrates the power of comedy to address serious themes like war. Set against the backdrop of the Chinese Civil War (1920s–1940s), the play contrasts revolutionary and traditional artistic forms, revealing the intricate relationship between art and politics. Its comic appeal emerges from character interactions that lead to misunderstandings, drawing on the audience’s awareness…
Mill (6 works) · Political Theory and Influence (6 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · European Political History Analysis (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works)