John Stuart Mill on History : Human Nature, Progress, and the Stationary State.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 The Scottish Enlightenment and the Idea of Philosophical History -- The Science of Man -- Conjectural History -- The Four Stages Theory -- The Paradox of Progress -- Notes -- 2 The Utility of History -- The Mill-Macaulay Debate -- The Unity of Theory and Practice -- The Priority of Method -- Breaking from Benthamite Psychology -- "Bentham" -- "Coleridge" -- Imaginative History -- Scientific History -- Notes -- 3 Human Nature and History -- Free Will and the Social Sciences -- Methodological Foundations -- The Hierarchy of Laws: Psychological, Ethological, and Empirical -- The Malleability of Human Nature -- The Chemical and Geometrical Methods -- Concrete Deduction and Methodological Individualism -- Deduction and Political Economy -- Is Mill's Science of Ethology Possible? -- Notes -- 4 Statics, Dynamics, and the Historical Method -- Statics and Dynamics -- Inverse Deduction and Historical Explanation -- "The Speculative Faculties of Mankind" -- Scientific History -- Notes -- 5 History and Progress -- Saint-Simonianism and the "Spirit of the Age" -- Natural and Transitional States -- "Moral Revolutions" and Comte -- Comte and the Law of the Three Stages -- The Individual and Historical Change -- Mind and Matter in Stadial Theory -- Progress in the Age of Commerce -- Philosophies of History and Politics -- Notes -- 6 Stationary States in Practice and Theory -- James Mill and India -- The Asian Stationary State in the Enlightenment -- Indian Governance in Theory and Practice: Land Reform -- Indian Governance in Theory and Practice: Education Policy -- Intellectual Freedom as the "Spring of Improvement" -- The Paradox of Progress Revisited -- Economics and Advocacy -- The Stationary State in Classical Political Economy -- The Stationary State of Middle Class Culture.

The Economic Stationary State and Cultural Renewal -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Works by John Stuart Mill -- Other Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index -- About the Author.

This study examines John Stuart Mill's philosophy of history and his efforts to develop a comprehensive methodology for the social sciences. The author argues that Mill's interpretation of history and his conception of cultural and economic stationary states were central to his critique of mass culture and his advocacy of individual autonomy.

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