John Stuart Mill as Moralist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4455629 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H S Jones (0000-0001-5061-2513, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 287 |
| Publication date | 1992-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2709875 |
| OpenAlex | W2050266056 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
John Stuart Mill was long regarded as a good man but a muddled thinker.' He was, according to this account, an arch-eclectic, bewildered by the intricacies of his own thought. His mind was, in Jevons's words, essentially illogical.2 The renewed scholarly interest in his work in the last two decades has made this interpretation look increasingly dated, but consensus remains elusive, not least because recent work seems to point in two radically different directions. On the one hand, commentators have emphasized the centrality of A System of Logic and have asserted the systematic nature of Mill's work. These authors have highlighted Mill's defense of empiricist logic against the challenge of intuitionism and have stressed his continuing debt to the intellectual system on which he was reared.3 At the same time we have been forced to revise our understanding of the phases of liberal thought in Victorian England, and this has had implications for our interpretation of Mill. Boyd Hilton has depicted the pervasive moral outlook of the early nineteenth centuryinformed as it was by evangelicalism-and has seen that outlook as largely defunct by the 1850s4, and Michael Freeden has suggested that organicism rather than Green's idealism was the compulsive intellectual force behind Edwardian New Liberalism.5 These two historiographical trends have created space for a new emphasis on the distinctiveness of Liberal thought
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The tacit concept of competence in J.S. Mill's On Liberty
Worlds of Liberalism
Feminism and the state in later Victorian England
Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900
On the Nadir of Natural Rights Theory in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Orientalism and Islam
John Stuart Mill on Race
The J. S. Mill Bibliography
The Tacit Concept of Competence in J. S. Mill's On Liberty
Morris, Mill, and Baudelaire
James Fitzjames Stephen's other enemies
Women's Suffrage, Political Economy, and the Transatlantic Birth Strike Movement, 1911–1920
| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2025 (32) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |