Mill on Happiness: A question of method

Loizides, Antis

doi:10.1080/09608788.2014.888331

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“…Twelve years later, the contrast between 'traditional' and 'revisionist' interpretations of J. S. Mill's thought was cemented (Gray 1979). Importantly, the debate still lingers on (see the exchange between Brown 2010; Miller 2010; See also Loizides 2013bLoizides , 2014bMillgram 2019;Hansson 2022).…”

Section: On Social Freedom and J S Mill's Receptionmentioning

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Did John Stuart Mill Write ‘On Social Freedom’?

Loizides,

Neocleous,

Nicolaides

2023

Humanities

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During his final years, John Stuart Mill reportedly attempted to update the argument of On Liberty (1859). Published posthumously in 1907, ‘On Social Freedom’ represents the initial, unrefined draft of his reworked ideas. This article argues that John Stuart Mill was not the author of ‘On Social Freedom’. First, we revisit the question of the essay’s authorship traditionally: the emphasis is on the essay’s content and the historical context of the mid-twentieth-century debate on Mill as its author. We trace the disagreement to two broad reactions to Mill’s thought. Ultimately, the question of whether the manuscript’s substantial divergence from J. S. Mill’s renowned works is enough to refute his authorship depends on one’s interpretation of Mill as a systematic philosopher. Second, we tackle this task non-traditionally: the focus shifts to the tools of computer-assisted authorship identification and the use of machine learning (ML) techniques. Once we establish some key ideas, methods, and limitations of this field of studies, we present our attempts at a computer-assisted solution to the puzzle. The results of our experiments, using ML techniques, corroborate the conclusions reached via the traditional route.

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Section: On Social Freedom and J S Mill's Receptionmentioning

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Did John Stuart Mill Write ‘On Social Freedom’?

Loizides,

Neocleous,

Nicolaides

2023

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“… 33 For this term, see Loizides (2014), 306, and Scarre (1999), 500. Scarre (1996), 95, suggests an alternative account, according to which Mill refrains from criticizing Hedonism in order to avoid undermining the public’s commitment to “utilitarian ideals.” However, given the threat to that commitment posed by its association with a “pig philosophy” (Carlyle (1850), 268-270), absent considerations of filial piety, it would surely have been much easier for a Non-Hedonist Mill to have defended those ideals by breaking the association entirely.…”

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J.S. Mill on Calliclean Hedonism and the Value of Pleasure

Beaumont

2018

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Maximizing Hedonism maintains that the most pleasurable pleasures are the best. Francis Bradley argues that this is either incompatible with Mill’s Qualitative Hedonism, or renders the latter redundant. Some ‘sympathetic’ interpreters respond that Mill was either a Non-Maximizing Hedonist or a Non-Hedonist. However, Bradley’s argument is fallacious, and these ‘sympathetic’ interpretations cannot provide adequate accounts of: Mill’s identification with the Protagorean Socrates; his criticisms of the Gorgian Socrates; or his apparent belief that Callicles is misguided to attempt to show that the pleasures of the intelligent can be more valuable than the pleasures of fools without also being more pleasurable.

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Happiness: family and nation in nineteenth-century Ireland

Barclay

2021

Nineteenth-Century Contexts

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Mill on Happiness: A question of method

Cited by 5 publications

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Did John Stuart Mill Write ‘On Social Freedom’?

Did John Stuart Mill Write ‘On Social Freedom’?

J.S. Mill on Calliclean Hedonism and the Value of Pleasure

Happiness: family and nation in nineteenth-century Ireland

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