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ISBN: 0816616698 0816616701 Year: 1987 Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,

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ISBN: 0198780389 9780198780380 Year: 1993 Publisher: Oxford University Press


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The philosophy of the social sciences
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ISBN: 0333109724 0333109635 9780333109632 9780333109724 Year: 1970 Volume: 295 Publisher: London Macmillan

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The philosophy of social explanation
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ISBN: 0198750250 9780198750253 Year: 1973 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,


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The making of modern liberalism
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ISBN: 9780691163680 9780691148403 0691148406 0691163685 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond. The book is the fruit of the more than four decades during which Alan Ryan, one of the world's leading political thinkers, reflected on the past of the liberal tradition--and worried about its future. This is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory or the history of liberalism

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The philosophy of John Stuart Mill
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ISBN: 0333435621 9780333727188 Year: 1987 Publisher: Basingstoke : Macmillan,

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Mill is usually thought of as an eclectic and unsystematic writer, whose views on freedom contradict his views on moral right and wrong, whose views on causation contradict his views on syllogistic inference and so on. Alan Ryan, however, demonstrates that Mill both saw his views as part of a systematic defence of empiricist epistemology and utilitarian ethics, and was to a large extent successful in offering a coherent and connected defence of this system. Mill aimed to show that we could possess a knowledge of individual and social human nature equal to our knowledge of the material world; the point of showing this was to erect on the science of human nature a utilitarian ethics in which freedom and self-realisation for as many people as possible could be achieved. Written at a time when John Stuart Mill was beginning to be taken seriously as a philosopher who provided more than a storehouse of errors for student philosophers to cut their teeth on, The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill was unusual in insisting on the systematic character of Mill's philosophy. From the philosophy of mathematics to the defence of individual liberty, Mill attacked the prevailing 'intuitive' theories and put a subtle empiricism in their place. Since the first edition of this acclaimed study in 1970, many writers have contributed to a more systematic understanding of Mill's programme for philosophy, ethics and social science, and Alan Ryan's preface to the second edition briefly assesses the way Mill appeared in this later climate of opinion.

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