John Stuart Mill

First Published in 1999. John Skorupskis book is a comprehensive revaluation of Mill as a philosopher. The opening chapters outline Mills main doctrines and attitudes and provide an up-to-date account of his views on language logic and the mind. Skorupski carefully examines Mills analysis of connotation and denotation and brings out the affinities between Mills naturalistic view of logic mathematics and science and important themes in current philosophy. Mills standing as a political philosopher rests on his insights into the bases of liberalism and on the power and eloquence with which he grounds them in an appeal to general human good. His views on social science on utilitarianism and on liberty are examined in the final three chapters. This book aims to re-establish Mill as a major philosopher whose ideas on issues as different as the nature of mathematics and the foundations of liberal democracy are strikingly relevant to todays philosophical debates and inquiries. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in political/social philosophy.