Table of Contents; John N. Gray, John Stuart Mill: Traditional and Revisionist Interpretations: Library of Economics and Liberty

John Stuart Mill: Traditional and Revisionist Interpretations by John N. Gray 1979. Originally published in Literature of Liberty, vol. ii, no. 2 April-June 1979, Cato Institute. Republished with permission of original copyright holders.
The Traditional View of an Incoherent Mill ... A "Two Mills" Thesis? The Revisionist View of Mill as a Consistent Thinker The Traditional View of J. S. Mill on Liberty, Morality, and Utility Stephen's Analysis of Utility as Antiliberty and Proauthority Traditional Critique of Mill's Utilitarianism: Its Unwarranted Optimism About Human Nature and Failure to Support the Priority of Liberty The Revisionist View of Mill on Liberty, Morality, and Utility The Utility Principle, the Art of Life, and the Theory of Morality What Constitutes Moral Wrong: Mill's Harm Principle or Principle of Liberty Traditional Objections to Mill's Harm Principle The Revisionists' Clarification of Mill's Harm or Liberty Principle Rees's Defense of Mill's Harm Principle: Interests and Rights Utility and the Permanent Interests of Man as a Progressive Being Human Interests, Moralism, and Paternalism Man as a Progressive Being: Choice, Liberty, and the Psychology of Self-Realization The Interests of a Progressive Being: Autonomy, Security, and Liberty Mill on the Priority of Liberty as Autonomy: Laissez-faire, Private Property, and Socialism Mill on the Role of Government: Neither Laissez-faire nor Socialism Mill's Conception of Distributive Justice vs. Orthodox Socialism Mill's Lockean Distributive Theory vs. Egalitarianism Mill's Syndicalism vs. Authoritarian Socialism Mill on the Limits of Economic Growth: Its Harm to Individual Character and Social Values Mill and Socialism John Stuart Mill's Idea of a Science of Society: One or Two Mills? Mill as a Transitional Thinker on Human Nature: Between Mechanism and Idealism Mill's Science of Human Nature: Uniform Laws vs. Constancy Human Nature: The Laws of Individual Psychology and the Cultural, Historical Context Mill's Compatibilism: Free Will and Determinism Mill as a Transitional Thinker: Between the Objectivist and Skeptical Traditions of Liberalism Traditional and Revisionist Interpretations—A Provisional Evaluation
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