Mill on the Method of Politics

Loizides, Antis

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“…Consequently, the key aim of this paper is to provide a formal analysis of Mill's definition of ‘nationality’ that clarifies Mill's conceptual disagreement with Acton. In doing so, it draws on Mill's philosophy of language and social science, thereby supporting the once controversial but increasingly accepted view that Considerations offers some practical illustrations of the methodology defended earlier in the Logic (Loizides, 2013, p. 231–236; Rosen, 2013, pp. 85–86).…”

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“…However, Mill does not seem sufficiently confident to integrate these causal factors into a higher order tendency law which states explicitly that they trump the combined effects of heterogeneity of language, religion and race (ceteris paribus); as if discussing an individual from a psycho‐ethological perspective, Mill seems to worry that his ‘data’ are not ‘complete’ enough to draw such a bold conclusion (VIII: 847). Consequently, in this particular case at least, one might resist the charge directed at Mill by Stefan Collini et al (1983, p. 155), that Considerations does what the Logic ‘condemned’ by grounding causal generalisations upon ‘isolated and under‐analysed illustrations’ (Loizides, 2013, p. 233).…”

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Mill and Acton on liberty, nationality and multinational states

Beaumont

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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Mill's System of Logic (1843) indicates that the definition of ‘nationality’ he offered in Considerations on Representative Government (1861) is not a throwaway comment but a carefully considered causal hypothesis tailored to his politico‐ethological research programme. This matters because Lord Acton's critique of Mill's claim that free institutions are almost impossible in multinational states ignored the definition, thereby obscuring subsequent scholars' vision of the conceptual dimension of this famous dispute. Although Mill struggled in his politico‐ethological endeavour, he was sufficiently confident to judge that, if nationalities seek self‐determination through exclusive control of the state, liberal democratic institutions would be unlikely to emerge in multinational states, let alone survive and prosper. Since Acton's critique presupposed an undemocratic conception of free institutions and a far weaker notion of national self‐determination, it failed to contradict that judgement. Indeed, once their conceptual disagreements are clarified, Acton's empirical analysis can be seen to support it.

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Mill and Acton on liberty, nationality and multinational states

Beaumont

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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Mill's Aesthetics

Loizides¹

2016

A Companion to Mill

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History and Historiography in Classical Utilitarianism, 1800–1865

Barrell

2021

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This first comprehensive account of the utilitarians' historical thought intellectually resituates their conceptions of philosophy and politics, at a time when the past acquired new significances as both a means and object of study. Drawing on published and unpublished writings - and set against the intellectual backdrops of Scottish philosophical history, German and French historicism, romanticism, positivism, and the rise of social science and scientific history - Callum Barrell recovers the depth with which Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, George Grote, and John Stuart Mill thought about history as a site of philosophy and politics. He argues that the utilitarians, contrary to their reputations as ahistorical and even antihistorical thinkers, developed complex frameworks in which to learn from and negotiate the past, inviting us to rethink the foundations of their ideas, as well as their place in - and relationship to - nineteenth-century philosophy and political thought.

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Mill on the Method of Politics

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Mill and Acton on liberty, nationality and multinational states

Mill and Acton on liberty, nationality and multinational states

Mill's Aesthetics

History and Historiography in Classical Utilitarianism, 1800–1865

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