John Stuart Mill and the Meaning of Life

ISBN-13: 9780197617816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str.

Elijah Millgram

Recenzje

The great value of this thought-provoking book is neither strictly biographical nor ethical, but methodological...By investigating the life of a real human being whose disappointments, ecstasies and aporias were all his own, we are reminded that the true topic of ethics, a human life and how to live it well, is better served by examining a life in its fullness, in all its complexity and apparent contradiction, than the sparse and faceless thought experiments we usually encounter.

O autorze

Elijah Millgram is E. E. Ericksen Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. Author of Practical Induction, Ethics Done Right, Hard Truths, and The Great Endarkenment (OUP, 2015), he has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the Guggenheim Foundation.