Rethinking Mill's Ethics

Colin Heydt is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of South Florida. Among his other publications is Narrative, Imagination, and the Religion of Humanity in Mill's Ethics, Journal of the History of Philosophy.

• Introduction: Rethinking the Place of the Principle of Utility in Mill's Ethics; Chapter 1: The Ethics of Aesthetics and Life as Art; Chapter 2: Mill, Bentham, and 'Internal Culture'; Chapter 3: Narrative, Imagination, and the Religion of Humanity in Mill's Ethics; Chapter 4: Social and Political Dimensions of Aesthetic Education: Family, Marriage, and Gender Relations; Chapter 5: Social and Political Dimensions of Aesthetic Education: The Industrial Economy and the Workplace; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

"'Colin Heydt's work is a rich and original contextual study of John Stuart Mill's political philosophy, ethics and moral psychology. Heydt has a keen eye for the aesthetic dimensions of Mill's ideas of character and moral education and this has led to a great deal of clarification of Mill's more well-known moral ideas. It has also enabled Heydt to situate Mill more interestingly than is common in the context of predecessors and contemporaries, crossing many of the traditional disciplinary boundaries.' Knud Haakonssen, University of Sussex 'Colin Heydt's investigation of Mill is an original, engaging, and illuminating study of unduly neglected aspects of Mill's thought. I learned a great deal from it - not only about Mill and his views but also about aesthetic education and character development.' David Lyons, Boston University"