John Stuart Mill on history : human nature, progress, and the stationary state

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments = ix
• Introduction = xi
• Notes = xx
• 1 The Scottish Enlightenment and the Idea of Philosophical History = 1
• The Science of Man = 3
• Conjectural History = 8
• The Four Stages Theory = 10
• The Paradox of Progress = 12
• Notes = 16
• 2 The Utility of History = 21
• The Mill-Macaulay Debate = 22
• The Unity of Theory and Practice = 26
• The Priority of Method = 29
• Breaking from Benthamite Psychology = 32
• "Bentham" = 33
• "Coleridge" = 35
• Imaginative History = 43
• Scientific History = 49
• Notes = 52
• 3 Human Nature and History = 57
• Free Will and the Social Sciences = 60
• Methodological Foundations = 64
• The Hierarchy of Laws : Psychological, Ethological, and Empirical = 67
• The Malleability of Human Nature = 71
• The Chemical and Geometrical Methods = 76
• Concrete Deduction and Methodological Individualism = 78
• Deduction and Political Economy = 84
• Is Mill's Science of Ethology Possible? = 88
• Notes = 91
• 4 Statics, Dynamics, and the Historical Method = 97
• Statics and Dynamics = 98
• Inverse Deduction and Historical Explanation = 100
• "The Speculative Faculties of Mankind" = 105
• Scientific History = 107
• Notes = 114
• 5 History and Progress = 117
• Saint-Simonianism and the "Spirit of the Age" = 119
• Natural and Transitional States = 123
• "Moral Revolutions" and Comte = 129
• Comte and the Law of the Three Stages = 132
• The Individual and Historical Change = 136
• Mind and Matter in Stadial Theory = 139
• Progress in the Age of Commerce = 142
• Philosophies of History and Politics = 149
• Notes = 152
• 6 Stationary States in Practice and Theory = 157
• James Mill and India = 158
• The Asian Stationary State in the Enlightenment = 163
• Indian Governance in Theory and Practice : Land Reform = 165
• Indian Governance in Theory and Practice : Education Policy = 170
• Intellectual Freedom as the "Spring of Improvement" = 176
• The Paradox of Progress Revisited = 179
• Economics and Advocacy = 181
• The Stationary State in Classical Political Economy = 182
• The Stationary State of Middle Class Culture = 186
• The Economic Stationary State and Cultural Renewal = 190
• Notes = 193
• Epilogue : Individuality and History = 199
• Notes = 207
• Bibliography = 209
• Works / John Stuart Mill = 209
• Other Primary Sources = 209
• Secondary Sources = 210
• Index = 217
• About the Author = 223