Milton, Mill, and Berlin’s History of Monism and Pluralism

IF 0.4 3区社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Critical Review Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI:10.1080/08913811.2021.1938403

Seth Lobis

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Isaiah Berlin makes two brief references to John Milton in the essay he strategically titled “John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life.” The references establish a contrast between Milton and Mill by associating Milton with moral monism and Mill with its opposite, value pluralism. Yet a careful reading of Milton’s Areopagitica, cited dismissively in the essay, reveals the inadequacy of Berlin’s intellectual-historical account of the two concepts, which he presents as fully distinct and diametrically opposed. Although still heuristically valuable, Berlin’s account warrants historiographic revision and refinement, as his treatments of both Milton and Mill make apparent.

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米尔顿、密尔与柏林的一元论与多元主义史

以赛亚·伯林在一篇题为《约翰·斯图亚特·密尔与生命的终结》的文章中，两次简短地提到了约翰·弥尔顿。参考文献建立了弥尔顿和密尔之间的对比，将弥尔顿与道德一元论联系在一起，将密尔与价值多元主义联系在一起。然而，仔细阅读弥尔顿的《论出版自由》，就会发现伯林对这两个概念的知识历史描述是不充分的，他认为这两个概念完全不同，截然相反。尽管仍然具有启发式的价值，伯林的叙述值得历史的修订和完善，正如他对弥尔顿和密尔的处理所表明的那样。

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Critical Review POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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