John Stuart Mill and the Meaning of Life by Elijah Millgram
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Description This book is simultaneously an exercise in biography-one with a tragic narrative, to boot-and a novel reconstruction and reframing of some of the central theories and texts of the Western canon. It attempts to look at the theory of rationality from an unusual angle, by asking this question: 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 reasonabout what to do?
Publisher Description
John 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; theintellectual 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 thatwhat 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 thetheory 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?
Author Biography
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.
Details ISBN 0197617816 ISBN-13 9780197617816 Title John Stuart Mill and the Meaning of Life Author Elijah Millgram Format Paperback Year 2022 Pages 256 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc GE_Item_ID:133868682; About Us
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