J.S. Mill and Fitzjames Stephen on the American Civl War

• Autores: Thomas Schneider
• Localización: History of political thought, ISSN 0143-781X, Vol. 28, Nº 2, 2007, págs. 209-304
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Stephen's critique of Mill is best known in the form given to it in Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873). Nevertheless, the two men's journalistic writings from the 1860s- - the decade of the American Civil War-- already reveal divergent views of human progressiveness. Both supported the North, but Mill's hope for a moral regeneration of the American people seemed to Stephen to endanger the legal case for Unionism and to threaten further violence. More broadly, Mill's progressivism reflected a mistaken view of human nature.