Across the Channel: Freedom and Democracy in Athens from the Perspective of John Stuart Mill
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https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.100.019Keywords:
John Stuart Mill, Athens, Democracy, Representative government, GroteAbstract
The paper explores John Stuart Mill’s reading of the Athenian democratic experience. It examines the place that the Greek world occupied in his vast production and analyzes, specifically, the notion of liberty that Mill believed the Greeks enjoyed, the benefits that he recognized in their institutional order and his opinion on the agonistic character that marked its social and political life. It suggests that the Athenian model is used by Mill as a mirror against which it is possible to contrast modern society and constitutes an example that embodies, at least in part, his desires for a free and democratic society.
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