ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses intellectualist-moralist liberalism of flourishing. It begins with some ancestors and precursors of this intellectual movement, and then discusses the ideas of its founding father, John Stuart Mill. The chapter examines the thought of philosopher T. H. Green and that of the two main exponents of British New Liberalism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, Leonard Trelawney Hobhouse and John Atkinson Hobson. The chapter concludes with American philosopher John Dewey. The aim of the chapter is not only to present and discuss the major thinkers of intellectualist-moralist liberalism of flourishing but also to retrieve their legacy. All of these thinkers view human flourishing as the development of the intellectual and moral capabilities of individuals, and, being liberal thinkers, they assume liberal environment of liberty as the one within which the active realization of capabilities takes place. The modern roots of intellectualist-moralist liberalism of flourishing lie in John Stuart Mill's notion of individuality.
