Mill's progressive principles / David O. Brink.

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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""A note on Mill�s texts""; ""1. Mill�s radical background""; ""1. Psychological egoism""; ""2. Utilitarianism""; ""3. Evaluative hedonism""; ""4. Duty and interest""; ""5. Why utilitarianism?""; ""2. Varieties of motivation""; ""6. Mill�s apparent egoism""; ""7. Mill�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 apparent virtue of sanction utilitarianism""; ""27. The vices of sanction utilitarianism""; ""28. The Art of Life""; ""29. Considered, but not consistent, act utilitarianism""; ""5. The justification of utilitarianism""; ""30. Methodological naturalism""; ""31. A traditional reading of the proof""; ""32. Spot the howler""; ""33. An alternative reading of the proof""; ""34. Bottom-up justification""; ""35. Utilitarianism�s prospects""; ""6. Liberal preliminaries""; ""36. One very simple principle and the categorical approach""

""37. The self/other asymmetry""""38. The scope of liberty""; ""39. The harm principle and liberal rights""; ""40. Categories, rights, and utility""; ""7. Freedom of expression in a liberal context""; ""41. The blanket prohibition on paternalism""; ""42. Against censorship""; ""43. The truth-tracking rationale""; ""44. The deliberative rationale""; ""45. From expressive liberties to liberal principles""; ""46. Limits on liberty""; ""47. Limits on freedom of expression""; ""48. Deliberative values and First Amendment categories""; ""49. From liberal principles to expressive liberties""

""50. Free speech and other liberal principles""""8. Liberal principles refined""; ""51. The harm principle""; ""52. Is harm sufficient?""; ""53. Is harm necessary?""; ""54. Moralizing harm?""; ""55. Paternalism""; ""56. Offense""; ""57. A balancing test""; ""58. Legal moralism""; ""59. The Devlin debate""; ""60. Beyond the Devlin debate""; ""61. The categorical approach revisited""; ""9. Liberalism, utilitarianism, and rights""; ""62. The apparent tension between utility and rights""; ""63. The sanction theory of rights""; ""64. Rights as secondary principles""

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