Event Start Date: 20 May 2025 17:30 - 19:30

Location: Flora Anderson Hall

Professor Michele Moody-Adams

Professor Michele Moody-Adams

“Mill on the Complementarity of Permanence and Change”

Prof. Michele Moody-Adams

Joseph L. Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory, Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College

 

 

Professor Moody-Adams’ paper will explore Mill’s claim that Jeremy Bentham and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were the two great “half-men” of their time, asking whether this assertion illuminates Mill’s view of the relationship between tradition and progress, or does it reveal a fundamental ambivalence at the core of Mill’s thought, and what this might tell us about Mill’s understanding of truth.

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