Utility, Reason and Rhetoric: James Mill's Metaphor of the Historian as Judge
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DOI: 10.1017/s0953820819000232
Abstract: James Mill's History of British India (1817) made a rather strange claim: first-hand experience of India was not vital in writing a history – potentially, it led to false ideas about its subject-matter: eyewitnesses are… read more here.
Keywords: utility reason; judge; reason rhetoric; james mill ... See more keywords
JAMES MILL, THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF CIVIL RELIGION
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DOI: 10.1017/s1479244317000397
Abstract: This article argues for a reassessment of James Mill's anticlerical, and possibly atheistic, brand of secularism. Mill's well-known religious skepticism and criticism of the Church of England, it is suggested, have tended to obscure his… read more here.
Keywords: scottish enlightenment; enlightenment problem; religion; james mill ... See more keywords