Personal Liberty and Public Good is a compelling addition to the corpus of writing on the work of John Stuart Mill. It will be of great interest to historians of political thought, liberalism, and translation, as well as scholars of East Asian studies.
Introduction
1 On Liberty and Its Historical Conditions of Possibility
Translation in Theory
Translation Words and Lexical Fields
The Historical Conditions of Possibility
Individuality and Subjecthood
Elite Education and the Ruling Class
2 Mill and His English Critics
Self and Others
The Individual as Ground of Liberty
Negative and Positive Interpretations of Liberty
Society and Morality as Ground of Liberty
The Individual and the State
3 Nakamura Keiu and the Public Limits of Liberty
Village Society and Government
Christianity and the Personal Liberty of Conscience
Free Trade
4 Yan Fu and the Moral Prerequisites of Liberty
The Group and the Self
Models of Private and Public from Chinese Antiquity
Individuality as Moral Self-Cultivation
The Boundaries of Authority: Mutual Encouragement and Local Administration
5 Personal Liberty and Public Virtue
Mill's Encouragement of Virtue
Public Virtue and the Priority of Common Interests
The Japanese State and Its Subjects
The Reconstruction of the Chinese People
Conclusion
Notes
Bibiliography
Index