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OverviewJohn Stuart Mill was one of the most important and influential philosophers of the nineteenth century. He was also someone who exemplified a view about the meaning of life that is widespread among both philosophers and non-academics: that projects are what make your life meaningful, and if a single project is large enough to occupy center stage in it, that is the meaning of your life. His brilliant career notwithstanding, Mill's life was a train wreck; the intellectual energy and philosophical ingenuity which he devoted to figuring out what had gone wrong make him a fascinating object lesson in the view that projects give life meaning. Elijah Millgram argues that what went wrong was the very fact that Mill's life was a project--the tragedy of his life was an almost inevitable consequence of living out this account of the meaning of life.At once a scholarly contribution to the history of an important philosophical figure and an intervention in an ongoing debate within moral philosophy, this book takes on a topic that people outside the academy expect philosophy to address, but which it too rarely does: namely, the meaning of life. It is simultaneously an exercise in biography and a novel reconstruction and reframing of some of the central theories and texts of the philosophical canon. Millgram's work attempts to look at the theory of rationality from an unusual angle by asking: what difference does it make to the shape and progress of someone's life whether he has one or another understanding of practical reasoning--that is, of how one ought to reason about what to do? Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elijah Millgram (E. E. Ericksen Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, E. E. Ericksen Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780197617816ISBN 10: 0197617816 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 23 March 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 From Principle to Project 3 Mill's Epiphany 4 Mill's Postdoc 5 How to Write a Letter of Recommendation 6 Logic and the Problem of Necessity 7 Mill's Incubus 8 Justice, Freedom of Speech and Other Higher Pleasures 9 Taking Liberties with Utilitarianism 10 Mill's Aftermath 11 A Very Quiet Traged 12 Concluding Remarks A Mill's Metaphysical Paradox BibliographyReviewsThe 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. * Times Literary Supplement * Author InformationElijah 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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