Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
A Note on Mill's Texts
1: Mill's Radical Background
2: Varieties of Motivation
3: Perfectionism about Happiness and Higher Pleasures
4: Ambivalence about Duty
5: The Justification of Utilitarianism
6: Liberal Preliminaries
7: Freedom of Expression in a Liberal Context
8: Liberal Principles Refined
9: Liberalism, Utilitarianism, and Rights
10: Liberal Democracy
11: Sexual Equality
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

David O. Brink is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego and a Director of the Institute for Law and Philosophy at the University of San Diego School of Law. His research interests are in ethical theory, history of ethics, and jurisprudence. He is the author of Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics (CUP, 1989) and Perfectionism and the Common Good: Themes in the Philosophy of T.H. Green (OUP, 2003).

Reviews

Brink's book raises all the important issues in Millâs moral and political theory, but, as always, the complexities of Millâs thought defy a final settlement. The book is an outstanding contribution not only to Mill scholarship, but also to moral and political philosophy more generally.
*C.L. Ten, Mind*

This book deserves study by all Mill scholars, whether traditionalist or revisionist, and anyone interested in the tension between liberalism and utilitarianism among the nineteenth-century Philosophical Radicals culminating in Millâs thought.
*Daniel Jacobson, Ethics*

David O. Brink's study of John Stuart Mill's moral and political philosophy, Mill's Progressive Principles, is challenging and thought-provoking on multiple levels ... this is a work in the history of philosophy that is a significant and rewarding contribution to the continuing debate about the viability of utilitarianism
*Diane Jeske*

This is a very substantial study of Mills moral and political philosophy: the most important comprehensive study since Fred Bergers landmark book of 1984 . . . [Brink] proposes a deeply thought-out, unifying new reading of Mills thought, which will attract lasting attention -- and, I expect, prove lastingly controversial. It should be read not just by anyone with an interest in Mill but more generally by anyone with an interest in the historical development of Anglophone ethical and political theory, or in the possibilities and varieties of perfectionism. . . . [Brinks] interpretation of Mills fundamental outlook . . . is striking and new.
*John Skorupski, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*