Abstract
A broad comparison is made in this essay between the state of Anglophone and Continental philosophy at the time Mill wrote and the so-called Analytic/Continental divide as it exists now. How did Mill regard the divide as it was then, and how would he fit it now? His Schillerian idea of self-realisation, together with the criticism of society and culture that he based on it, put him in what he called the “German-Coleridgean” camp; but he rejected the metaphysics of German idealism. I suggest that a similar critical stance towards contemporary society, based on a similar philosophical standpoint, still has force.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | A Companion to Mill |
Subtitle of host publication | Blackwell Companionss to Philosophy |
Editors | christopher macleod, Dale E. Miller |
Place of Publication | Chichester |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Pages | 535 - 550 |
Number of pages | 15 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781118736463 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781118736524 |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- John Stuart Mill