Political Science · Western Political Thought
Who called J.S. Mill 'the prophet of empty liberty and abstract individual'?
ARobert Nozick
BHarold Laski
CC.B. Macpherson
DErnest Barker ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Ernest Barker — This description of Mill is attributed to Ernest Barker.
Explanation
★This description of Mill is attributed to Ernest Barker.
★Barker criticised Mill's liberty as too abstract and detached from social life.
★He felt Mill's isolated individual lacked the rich social and communal context of real persons.
★Ernest Barker was a student of the idealist T.H. Green and wrote widely on Greek political thought.
★His idealist leanings made him stress community and the social nature of the self.
★From that standpoint Mill's individualism looked like empty and abstract liberty.
★So the phrase about empty liberty and the abstract individual belongs to Barker.
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