Semmel, Bernard. John Stuart Mill and the Pursuit of Virtue. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

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This essay provides a fresh way of understanding and linking Mill’s most characteristics opinions. The author explores Mill’s view of the relationship between the sexes and the place of necessity in history, and examines Mill’s efforts to replace the conformist passivity of a commercial and egalitarian society with a heroic and unselfish virtue.

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