Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Moderns and Plato -- 2 Liberty and the Just Moral Conscience -- 3 The Cultivation of the Individual and Society: J. S. Mill's Use of Ancient and Romantic Dialectics -- 4 On Liberty: Overcoming the West's One-Sided Moral Development --...

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