FOUNDATIONS: John Stuart Mill, Part 1
In Season 2 - our FOUNDATIONS series - we’ll examine European philosophers from the 17th through the 19th centuries, to see how their views have shaped and defined our own… whether we realize it or not.
We begin with the thesis statement from Mill’s ON LIBERTY. In what amounts to a fundamentally libertarian view of freedom – that my own freedom should not be limited, so long as I am not doing harm to others – we begin by asking:
- What constitutes harm?
- How must differing perspectives and power dynamics be weighed and considered?
- What does it means that the currency and mechanisms of our freedom, and the institutions of civil society that are designed to protect and ensure that freedom, are rooted in basic dynamics of European reasoning?
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***SEASON TWO READINGS AND SOURCES***
On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill
John Locke's 2nd Treatise on Civil Government, by John Locke
Meditations on First Philosophy, by René Descartes
Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, by Tyson Yunkaporta
A Treatise of Human Nature [Books 1-3], by David Hume
Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Encyclopedia Logic (Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences Series #1), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosophy of Mind: Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences Series #3), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hegel's Philosophy of Right, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Thom Brooks, Editor)
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