By Gregory Claeys
Many discussions of J. S. Mill's inspiration of liberty concentration too narrowly on On Liberty and fail to recognize that his remedy of similar concerns in other places may perhaps adjust its top doctrines. Mill and Paternalism demonstrates how a contextual interpreting means that in ideas of Political financial system, and in addition his writings on eire, India and on family concerns like land reform, Mill proposed a considerably extra interventionist account of the nation than On Liberty turns out to suggest. This is helping to provide an explanation for Mill's sympathies for socialism after 1848, in addition to his Malthusianism and feminism, which, along side Harriet Taylor's perspectives, are vital to his later discussions of the relatives and marriage. Feminism, certainly, is proven to supply the reply to the matter which such a lot agitated Mill, overpopulation. therefore Gregory Claeys sheds new lighting on lots of Mill's overarching preoccupations, together with the idea of liberty on the middle of On Liberty.
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313, (vol. 2), pp. 164, 402. Durkheim would later follow the same ideas to similar conclusions (Socialism and Saint-Simon, p. 13). 152 Mill’s articles entitled ‘The Spirit of the Age’ (1831) described those who had hitherto possessed worldly power and moral influence, chiefly the hereditary aristocracy, as having abrogated any just claims to such influence. A moral and social revolution had transferred their power to more competent parties, and established a principle of reward, eventually crucial to Mill’s social theory, which would ‘leave no man one fraction of unearned distinction or unearned importance’.
Some later Victorians described him as a neo-Malthusian (Ussher, Neo-Malthusianism, pp. 1–2), and as offering ‘the most earnest advocacy of artificial restraints on multiplication’ (Mackay, A Plea for Liberty, p. 54). These views are taken up later here. For doubts as to his support for artificial birth control, see also Hollander, The Economics of John Stuart Mill (vol. 2), pp. 968–70. Boner describes him as an advocate of contraception (Hungry Generations, p. 99), as do Huzel (The Popularization of Malthus in Early Nineteenth-Century England, p.
CW 1, pp. 252, 195. 185 CW 1, pp. 622, 198 (deleted passages from Autobiography). CW 12, p. 154. To Capaldi, she helped him ‘understand the connection between the rights of women and autonomy, the basic notion in Mill’s social philosophy’, and shaped, though she did not provide, Mill’s concept of autonomy (John Stuart Mill. A Biography, pp. 338, 189, 252). CW 1, p. 255. It has now been reprinted as hers (Jacobs, The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill). g. Cannan, A History of the Theories of Production and Distribution in English Political Economy, pp.