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CRITO CONTAINS MORE THAN A REPOSITORY OF MAIN PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL OBLIGATION, AND CAREFUL STUDY OF THE NEXT REVEALS A MORE SUBTLE UNDERLYING THEME CONCERNED WITH FRIENDSHIP & BENEFICIENCE INVOLVING CRITO AND SOCRATES, SOCRATES & ATHENS, AND SOCRATES AND PHILOSOPHY.

"Frederick Rosen presents an original study of John Stuart Mill's moral and political philosophy, which explores the main themes of his writings--particularly those that emerge from the two major works, System of Logic (1843) and Principles of Political Economy (1848). From these, Mill developed the more widely-read later essays, On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861), Considerations on Representative Government (1861), and The Subjection of Women (1869). He was one of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century, and attempted to understand the political as well as intellectual struggles of his time, including those between capitalism and socialism, liberty and despotism, and Christianity and secular forces (particularly the sciences) that seemed to undermine religious belief. Rosen examines Mill's complex relationships with other contemporary thinkers (such as Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, Auguste Comte, George Grote, and Harriet Taylor Mill), and his philosophical sources, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, and Hume; and goes on to illustrate Mill's influence on subsequent philosophers, logicians, and economists. Rosen considers Mill's approaches to the study of active character and happiness in his work on logic and in the study of political economy, from which new interpretations of his ideas of liberty, justice, equality, and utility follow. Many of the debates with which Mill was engaged remain part of contemporary life, and Rosen's book is a guide for exploring and resolving them. Mill's ideas, his arguments, and the versions of utilitarianism and liberalism that he developed have created a humane, civilising philosophy for our times."--Publisher's website

Benevolence, justice and utilityUtility and morality; Enquiry versus Treatise; Hume and Bentham; 4 The idea of utility in Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments; Utility and justice; Smith and Hume on justice; Smith on utility: illusion and reality; Smith, Hume, and philosophical systems; Smith and Bentham; 5 Helvétius, the Scottish Enlightenment, and Bentham's idea of utility; Hume, Smith, and Helvétius; The role of the legislator; Utility and virtue; Helvétius and Bentham; De l'homme; Conclusion; 6 The idea of utility in Smith's Wealth of Nations; The 'invisible hand'

An exploration of the connection between Bentham and Byron forged by the Greek struggle for independence, this study provides a new assessment of British philhellenism and examines the relationship between Bentham's theory of constitutional government and the emerging liberalism of the 1820s

This article explores the relationship between utility and justice in the ancient Epicurean tradition, and as it developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries following the revival of Epicureanism in the writings of Pierre Gassendi. It focuses on the significance of various allusions to a line from Horace, 'utilitas, justi prope mater et aequi' (utility, the mother of justice and equity), which appeared in writings of Hugo Grotius, David Hume, and Jeremy Bentham, and was used to give utility a prominence in modern hought that it had not hitherto received. The article attempts to provide the context for Hume's belief in the Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals that the foundation of justice was utility and for Bentham placing utility at the foundation of his system.

THIS STUDY IN BRITISH POLITICAL THOUGHT EXPLORES THE MAINLY NEGATIVE REACTION TO GREEK NATIONALISM IN THE 1820S BY THE FIRST GENERATION TO REFER TO ITSELF AS LIBERAL IN THE MODERN IDEOLOGICAL SENSE. IT CHALLENGES ELIE KEDOURIE'S EXPLANATION FOR THE HOSTILITY TO MODERN NATIONALISM IN BRITAIN IN TERMS OF A WHIG THEORY OF NATIONALITY. IT ALSO CRITICIZES THE RECENT WORK OF DAVID MILLER FOR MISREADING THE CONTEXT OF J.S. MILL'S APPARENT ACCEPTANCE OF NATIONALISM WITHIN LIBERALISM. IT IS ARGUED THAT LIBERALISM AND NATIONALISM EMERGED IN BRITAIN AS MUTUALLY HOSTILE DOCTRINES, AND THAT THE HISTORICAL REASONS FOR THE HOSTILITY ARE NUMEROUS AND COMPLEX.