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050		4	_aB1607 .E374 2018
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100	1		_aEisenberg, Jay M.
245	1	0	_aJohn Stuart Mill on History : _bHuman Nature, Progress, and the Stationary State.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aBlue Ridge Summit : _bLexington Books/Fortress Academic, _c2018.
264		4	_c©2018.
300			_a1 online resource (247 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- 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.
505	8		_aThe Economic Stationary State and Cultural Renewal -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Works by John Stuart Mill -- Other Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index -- About the Author.
520			_aThis 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aMill, John Stuart,-1806-1873.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aEisenberg, Jay M. _tJohn Stuart Mill on History _dBlue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic,c2018 _z9781498563956
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5518160 _zClick to View
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