@article{e6b96043aaba47caa781276494330965,
title = "J. S. Mill on liberty, socratic dialectic, and the logic behind political discourse",
abstract = "This article examines J. S. Mill{\textquoteright}s philosophical logic as the basis for his political philosophy. In particular, it explores how he understands the logical mechanism of political discourse in his work A System of Logic and how this understanding supports his defense of freedom of thought and discussion in his On Liberty (chapter 2). While it is well known in the scholarly literature that Mill draws on Socratic dialectic to develop his view of political discourse, this article investigates in detail the logic behind the Socratic dialectic, thereby identifying the historical significance of Mill{\textquoteright}s defense of liberty of discussion.",
keywords = "Empiricism, J. S. Mill, Liberty, Philosophical logic, Philosophy of the social sciences, Political discourse, Socratic dialectic",
author = "Kazutaka Inamura",
note = "Funding Information: I wish to thank Roger Crisp for making valuable comments on an earlier version of my paper, and I thank Teresa Bejan and Jon Parkin for organizing and chairing a session in Oxford{\textquoteright}s History of Political Thought Seminar. I am also grateful to Yurika Umeda, Haruhisa Ueda, Takuya Furuta, Tsuyoshi Kamimura, Ryuichi Yamaoka, and Takuto Kobayashi for their support and discussions when I gave this paper at the 25th Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought. Finally, I owe a deep debt of gratitude to the Faculty of Education at Hirosaki University for allowing me to do research at Oxford. My research was financially supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [Overseas Research Fellowships and Grant in Aid for Young Scientists (B) (Grant Number: 16K16680)]. 1John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill [hereafter, CW], vol. 1, ed. John M. Robson (Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 1981), 9. For details on the editions of Plato, see M. F. Burnyeat, “What was the {\textquoteleft}Common Arrangement{\textquoteright}? An Inquiry into John Stuart Mill{\textquoteright}s Boyhood Reading of Plato,” Utilitas 13 (2001): 1–32. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Journal of the History of Ideas.",
year = "2020",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1353/jhi.2020.0016",
language = "English",
volume = "81",
pages = "257--277",
journal = "Journal of the History of Ideas",
issn = "0022-5037",
publisher = "University of Pennsylvania Press",
number = "2",
}