Personal Liberty and Public Good : : The Introduction of John Stuart Mill to Japan and China / / Douglas R. Howland.
Blame for the putative failure of liberalism in late-nineteenth-century Japan and China has often been placed on an insufficient grasp of modernity among East Asian leaders or on their cultural commitments to traditional values. In Personal Liberty and Public Good, Douglas Howland refutes this view,...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Conventions
- Introduction
- 1. On Liberty and Its Historical Conditions of Possibility
- 2. Mill and His English Critics
- 3. Nakamura Keiu and the Public Limits of Liberty
- 4. Yan Fu and the Moral Prerequisites of Liberty
- 5. Personal Liberty and Public Virtue
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index