The Early J.S. Mill on Marriage and Divorce

Symposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 8 (2):175-185 (2021)
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Janelle Pötzsch ABSTRACT: This paper discusses Mill’s early essay on marriage and divorce and gives two possible sources of influence for it: Plato’s arguments on the appropriate scope of the law in book IV of his Republic and Unitarian ideas on motherhood. It demonstrates that Plato’s Republic and Mill’s essay both emphasize the crucial …

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