Questions to Consider
What is the ideal form of government?
- for classical conservatives (Aristotle)?
- for classical liberals (Locke and Rousseau)?
- for “modern” philosophers
- Tocqueville?
- Mill?
Is there a tension between individual liberty and collective authority?
- What does Mill say?
- Consider this in context of
- what classics say
- Mill’s life and times
- What do you think?
What are the appropriate limits to collective authority and individual liberty?
- according to Mill
- classics/contemporaries
- your opinion
Do these concerns have any relevance today?
Do these concerns touch upon topics that are of interest to you?
Is this book/are these concerns relevant to the study of classical sociological theory?
- Does Mill ask sociological questions?
- Does he provide a sociological theory?
[Here we might want to consider what sociology is, when philosophers become
sociologists, and why we read Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, instead of Machiavelli,
More, and Mill, or, for that matter, Spencer, Pareto, and Tonnies.]
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