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“This all but universal illusion …”. Remarks on the question: Why did Mill write On Liberty?
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Róbert H. Haraldsson
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March 19, 2010
Abstract
Why did Mill write On Liberty? After motivating the need for asking this seemingly unnecessary question, I argue that Mill's main concern was not with defi ning the scope and content of the principle of liberty or with eliciting assent from his contemporaries; but rather with showing what taking such a very simple principle to heart amounts to. The notion of taking a doctrine to heart highlights a common theme behind many of the seemingly unrelated issues of the book. Finally, the paper offers some explanations of our failure to take to heart doctrines which we at one level assent to.
Published Online: 2010-03-19
Published in Print: 2004-05-01
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- Frontmatter
- Editorial Remark
- Hermeneutic Practice and Theories of Meaning
- On the possibility of a philosophical justifi cation for universally binding principles. in an age of one-state supremacy and shrinking interstate institutions
- Mündigkeit und Tugend. – David Hume, Immanuel Kant und Adam Smith über Dispositionen zu moralischem Handeln und Strategien, sich der moralischen Verpfl ichtung zu entziehen
- Kant and Plato
- “This all but universal illusion …”. Remarks on the question: Why did Mill write On Liberty?
- A defense of the causal efficacy of dispositions
- Freedom as Satisfaction? A Critique of Frankfurt's Hierarchical Theory of Freedom
- Smilansky's Baseline Objection to Choice-Egalitarianism
- Reply to Lippert-Rasmussen On the Paradox of the Baseline
- Review Essay
- Heidegger on Subjectivity and Self-Consciousness
- Book Reviews
- Stephen Darwall, Welfare and Rational Care, Princeton Monographs in Philosophy, Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. 135 pp.
- Review of Steen Brock: Niels Bohr's Philosophy of Quantum Physics in the Light of the Helmholtzian Tradition of Theoretical Physics, Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2003, 303 pp.
- Fredrik Sundqvist, Perceptual Dynamics: Theoretical Foundations and Philosophical Implications of Gestalt Psychology, Acta Philosophica Gothoburgensia 16, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2003. 248 pp.
