Antis Loizides

John Stuart Mill's Platonic Heritage (eBook, PDF)

Happiness through Character

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the early draft of his Autobiography (London, 1873), John Stuart Mill described himself as "a pupil of Plato, and cast in the mould of his dialectics." However, how Plato's influence came about, to what extent, and with regard to which aspects of Mill's thought, form questions that do not usually preoccupy Mill scholarship. To fill this gap in critical attention, this book draws upon a variety of primary sources to pay particular attention to Mill's concern with reform, method, character, virtue, and happiness through his reading of the ancient Greeks-particularly Plato. At the same time, this book focuses on the intellectual relationship between father and son, studying their responses to the prevalent trends as to the worth of classical studies and of Platonic philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain. Not only does John Stuart Mill's "intoxication" with ancient Greece manifest itself in all those aspects of his works already mentioned; but-what is most important-it also permeates his unvarying aim: the improvement of mankind through the improvement of its individual members.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216272298
• Artikelnr.: 74832796

Autorenporträt

Antis Loizides teaches at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Cyprus. In 2010, he was awarded a research grant by the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus to carry out research on Plato's influence on John Stuart Mill. His research interests include British utilitarianism, the moral and political thought of John Stuart Mill and James Mill, social contract theories, social happiness, justice, and liberty. He is co-editor of John Stuart Mill: A British Socrates (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Classical
Reception in Nineteenth-Century Britain Chapter One: Reform through
Classics Contesting the Place of Classics Athenian Institutions and Reform
Concluding Remarks Notes Chapter Two: Plato in Pre-Victorian Britain
Rediscovering Plato A Neoplatonist Born Out of Due Season Socrates in
Early-Nineteenth Century Socrates, Plato and the Utilitarians Concluding
Remarks Notes Chapter Three: James Mill on Plato Radicalising Plato James
Mill's 'Platonism' Concluding Remarks Notes Part II: John Stuart Mill's
Appropriation of Plato Chapter Four: Educative Past Reforming Educational
Practice Reforming Social Institutions Reforming Political Practice
Concluding Remarks Notes Chapter Five: Reading Plato Mill's First Reading:
Defining Plato's Creed Mill's Second Reading: Grote's Plato Concluding
Remarks Notes Chapter Six: On Plato's Method Mill's Intellectual
Development and Plato Mill's Dialectical Method Concluding Remarks Notes
Part III: John Stuart Mill's Platonic Heritage Chapter Seven: The Art of
Life Reason and Action Mill and the Art of Life An Education for the Art of
Life Concluding Remarks Notes Chapter Eight: Character, Ethology and Virtue
Defining Character Means and Ends of Character Formation Concluding Remarks
Notes Chapter Nine: Eudaimonia and Utility Utility or Eudaimonia? Additive
and Directive Views of Happiness Direction, Pleasure and Lives Concluding
Remarks Notes Conclusion Bibliography Index