Philosophische Tugenden

What is good philosophizing? And why is John Stuart Mill an exceptionally good philosopher? In this volume, Joachim Toenges-Hinn combines the metaphilosophical quest for what constitutes good philosophy with a historical study of the philosopher John Stuart Mill. In this, Mill acts as both author and embodiment of the pursuit of two philosophical virtues, which Toenges-Hinn derives from Mill’s philosophical work, and then systematically defends. These virtues, identified as “Bentham’s Ideal” and “Coleridge’s Ideal”, are just as much a focus of his investigation as the importance of “experiments in living” for philosophical biographies.