Quality and Competence: An Analysis of the Role of Mill's Qualitative Hedonism on his Conception of Representative Democracy

Traditionally, John Stuart Mill has been described as a transitional thinker who fails to fully understand the values he espouses. Critics contend that he cannot simultaneously espouse both utility maximization and the protection of individual choice-making as a non-trumpable value. Like his moral p...

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Main Author: Miller, J. Joseph
Other Authors: Philosophy
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36581
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-2847102939721181/