Starting with Mill Book

Chronology ix

Preface xi

Chapter 1 Mill and the Modern World 1

i Modern Philosophy 1

ii Metaphysics and Epistemology 4

iii British Empiricism 8

iv Logic and A System of Logic 15

v Hume's Fork 17

vi Kant's Copernican Revolution 19

vii Rejecting a Priori Knowledge 22

viii Psychology and Associationism 28

ix James Mill and Associationism 30

Chapter 2 Mill's Education and Early Influences 33

i James Mill 33

ii John Stuart Mill's Education 37

iii Mill's Introduction to Bentham 42

iv The East India Company 43

v Harriet Taylor 44

vi The Ancient Greeks 45

vii The Dialogues of Plato 46

viii The Logic of Aristotle 49

ix Plato and Utilitarianism 52

Chapter 3 Liberalism and On Liberty 54

i Classical Economics and Adam Smith 54

ii Smith and the Division of Labor 59

iii On Liberty and the Autobiography 61

iv The Harm Principle 66

v The Liberty Principle 67

vi Mill's Dialectic 68

vii Freedom of Expression and Individuality 70

viii The Utility of Experiments in Living 72

ix The Final Formulation of the Liberty Principle 76

Chapter 4 Mill's Minimalist Utilitarianism 81

i Mill's Minimalist Ethics 81

ii Edwards' Reading of Mill 82

iii A Point of Clarification 85

iv Philosophy and Fashion 86

v Urmson's Reexamination 88

vi The Difficulty with the Maximizing Reading 89

vii The Minimalist Reading 90

viii Mill and Moral Extremism 92

ix Mill's utilitarianism and On Liberty 96

x Utilitarianism and A System of Logic 98

xi The Principle of Utility 104

xii Utility and Character Formation 108

xiii The Choice of Hercules 112

Chapter 5 Mill And Human Rights 114

i Racial and Gender Justice 114

ii Kant on Race 115

iii Racial Blindness 116

iv Mill on Race 118

v Kant and Women 121

vi Mill and Feminist Activism 124

vii The Historical Mill and the Historical Kant 124

viii Kant and Animals 125

ix Kant and the Capacity for Rationality 128

x Bentham and Animals 132

xi Bentham on Paederasty 133

xii Classical Utilitarianism and Rights 136

xiii Utilitarianism, Egalitarianism, and the Right to Equal Consideration 139

xiv Modern Ethics, Utilitarianism, and Kantianism 146

xv Two Concepts of Liberty 148

xvi Universal Declaration of Human Rights 150

xvii The Trolley Problem 152

xviii The Two Mills 154

Notes 159

Further Reading 166

Bibliography 169

Index 177