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Author Howland, Douglas R

Title Personal Liberty and Public Good : the Introduction of John Stuart Mill to Japan and China
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (235 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; A Note on Conventions; Introduction; 1 On Liberty and Its Historical Conditions of Possibility; Translation in Theory; Translation Words and Lexical Fields; The Historical Conditions of Possibility; Individuality and Subjecthood; Elite Education and the Ruling Class; 2 Mill and His English Critics; Self and Others; The Individual as Ground of Liberty; Negative and Positive Interpretations of Liberty; Society and Morality as Ground of Liberty; The Individual and the State; 3 Nakamura Keiu and the Public Limits of Liberty; Village Society and Government
Christianity and the Personal Liberty of ConscienceFree Trade; 4 Yan Fu and the Moral Prerequisites of Liberty; The Group and the Self; Models of Private and Public from Chinese Antiquity; Individuality as Moral Self-Cultivation; The Boundaries of Authority: Mutual Encouragement and Local Administration; 5 Personal Liberty and Public Virtue; Mill's Encouragement of Virtue; Public Virtue and the Priority of Common Interests; The Japanese State and Its Subjects; The Reconstruction of the Chinese People; Conclusion; Notes; Bibiliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R
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Summary Personal Liberty and Public Good is a compelling addition to the corpus of writing on the work of John Stuart Mill. It will be of great interest to historians of political thought, liberalism, and translation, as well as scholars of East Asian studies
Notes Print version record
Subject Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873. On liberty.
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 -- Influence
SUBJECT Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 fast
On liberty (Mill, John Stuart) fast
Subject Liberty.
Common good.
Political science -- Japan -- Political science -- 19th century
Political science -- China -- History -- 19th century
Freedom
freedom.
Common good
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Liberty
Political science
China
Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442678378
1442678372