John Stuart Mill

By the end of this part of this chapter you should: ■

Have read Mill’s On Liberty and The Subjection of Women at least twice.

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Have a good critical understanding of Mill’s position on the Harm Principle and its applications.

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Have a good critical understanding of Mill’s position in The Subjection of Women.

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Appreciate On Liberty’s relation to The Subjection of Women.

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Appreciate some relevant features of the original historical context in which these books were written.

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Appreciate the continuing relevance to political philosophy of some of the central issues in these two works and understand their relationship to the ideas of the other thinkers in this book.