Mill and Marx
Individual Liberty and the Roads to Freedom
Published on 24. January 1991
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-7190-3333-9 (ISBN)
Description
The aim of this study is to compare the theories of liberty - and the means of achieving it - articulated by the originators of political philosophies which played a principal role in the construction of the two competing ideologies of the late 20th century - liberalism and communism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-3333-9 (9780719033339)
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Content
Part 1 Human nature: introductory comment - method and human nature; Mill and human nature - the context, self-culture, free will and liberty, laws of the mind and the science of ethology; instincts; Marx and the "Homo Faber" - the continuity controversy, human nature, the productive individual etc. Part 2 The individual and freedom: introductory comment; Mill and individuality - the elite, the generality and democracy, the principle of liberty, the autonomous individual, happiness and freedom, the elite, the generaltity and rep government; Marx and the individual - Marx on morality and justice, Marxian justice and communist morality, Marx against justice and morality, the "grundrisse", the individual and freedom, the individual, circulation and money, self-determination, social freedom and revolution.