Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.

Door: Stephen, James Fitzgerald.

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• Uitgever: Edited with an introduction and notes by R.J. White. Cambridge : at the University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Dustjacket. v,291 pp. Portrait. Conditie: goed
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• Details: Conditie: goed. PHILOSOPHY
• Extra informatie: - R. J. White's edition makes Fitzjames Stephen's classic available for the first time since 1914. The editor has made use of the second edition (1874) which included Stephen's notes in reply to his original critics. Stephen's work is written as a systematic denunciation of John Stuart Mill's political thought. It is thus of great importance in the history of Utilitarianism, and also as the mo forthright and systematic of the Victorian attacks on Democracy. Against Mill's hopes for an educated populace, Stephen insists on the prime need for coercion. He denounces Mill's concept of Liberty as destructive of the social order and denies that the concept of justice has any neces sary connection with the ideal of social equality. Stephen's work is also important for its repudiation of the progressive attitudes to religion and morality characteristic of the Comp tist philosophy which had attracted Mill. He presents what has come to be regarded as the classic defence of the criminal law as the 'organ of the moral indignation of Mankind'. Stephen's aim was to show that 'no room is left for the order of ideas hinted at by the phrase "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity". He argues his case throughout with legal precision and considerable rhetorical powers.
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