Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Millgram, Elijah
Titre(s) : John Stuart Mill and the meaning of life [Texte imprimé] / Elijah Millgram
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (vii-248 p.) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 235-241. Notes bibliogr. p. 183-234. Index
"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 nonacademics: 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?''
Sujet(s) : Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873) -- Critique et interprétation
Rationalité
Vie
Indice(s) Dewey :
192 (23e éd.) = Philosophie occidentale moderne - Îles britanniques
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190873240. - ISBN 0190873248 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45735241b
Notice n° :
FRBNF45735241
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : From principle to project ; Mill's epiphany ; Mill's postdoc ; How to write a
letter of recommendation ; Logic and the problem of necessity ; Mill's incubus
; Justice, freedom of speech and other higher pleasures ; Taking liberties with utilitarianism
; Mill's aftermath ; A very quiet tragedy ; Concluding remarks ; A Mill's metaphysical
paradox.
