Reforming Reformed Religion
J. S. Mill's Critique of the Enlightenment's Natural Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9436714 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Devigne (Tufts University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-27 |
| Publication date | 2006-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055406061971 |
| OpenAlex | W2131040445 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 26 |
John Stuart Mill's writings on religion, a neglected topic in the secondary literature, deserve careful examination because they challenge the long-standing view that liberalism opposes conceptions of the best life. Mill himself considers religion responsible for perfecting the individual and a crucial dimension of his moral theory. In his view, developing a conception of the best life will be difficult in England because it requires broaching a sensitive issue that the Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment did not comprehend: namely, that the Enlightenment's reformed Christianity is too great a compromise with traditional or revealed Christianity. If English liberalism is to generate a comprehensive morality for the future, argues Mill, reformed Christianity must be further reformed to create a culture that fosters human flourishing. A comparison of Mill's views of Christianity with those of Kant and Hegel provides a window for viewing their different visions of the morality of the future. The contrast provides further evidence that liberalism, in Mill's view, is not nearly as narrow a moral outlook as many commentators on liberalism, whether admirers or critics, believe
Aesthetics · Christianity · Enlightenment · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Liberalism · Mill · Morality · Political science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · European Political History Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Religious studies
Philosophy of Right
Natural Right and History
Human Agency and Language
Rival Enlightenments
Liberal Pluralism
Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment
God, Locke, and Equality
That Noble Science of Politics
Hegel's Philosophy of Freedom
Idealism as Modernism
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone
Auguste Comte and Positivism
Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Grote's 'history of Greece
Kant's Moral Theory
Beyond good and evil
John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control
The Religious Thought of John Stuart Mill
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |