{"product_id":"john-stuart-mill-on-liberty-and-control-9780691007175","title":"John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control.","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Stuart Mill is one of the hallowed figures of the liberal tradition  revered for his defense of liberal principles and expansive personal liberty. By examining Mills arguments in On Liberty in light of his other writings  however  Joseph Hamburger reveals a Mill very different from the \"saint of rationalism\" so central to liberal thought. He shows that Mill  far from being an advocate of a maximum degree of liberty  was an advocate of liberty and control--indeed a degree of control ultimately incompatible with liberal ideals.  Hamburger offers this powerful challenge to conventional scholarship by presenting Mills views on liberty in the context of his ideas about  in particular  religion and historical development. The book draws on the whole range of Mills philosophical writings and on his correspondence with  among others  Harriet Taylor Mill  Auguste Comte  and Alexander Bain to show that Mills underlying goal was to replace the traditional religious basis of society with a form of secular religion that would rest on moral authority  individual restraint  and social control. Hamburger argues that Mill was not self-contradictory in thus championing both control and liberty. Rather  liberty and control worked together in Mills thought as part of a balanced  coherent program of social and moral reform that was neither liberal nor authoritarian.  Based on a lifetimes study of nineteenth-century political thought  this clearly written and forcefully argued book is a major reinterpretation of Mills ideas and intellectual legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67970637856821,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691007179","price":40.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691007175.jpg?v=1794592564","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/john-stuart-mill-on-liberty-and-control-9780691007175","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}