Giuseppe Mazzini e John Stuart Mill : considerazioni in margine ai Thoughts upon Democracy in Europe

The essay compares the views of Giuseppe Mazzini and John Stuart Mill on liberty and Liberalism. Some scholars argue that the similarities between the two thinkers are merely surface-level. However, a more in-depth exploration allows us to better assess their conceptions of liberty. By looking at Mill's thought as a whole, rather than focusing solely on On Liberty, we find that Mazzini and Mill both grapple with the same problem: how to balance liberalism and organicism, aiming to maintain individual freedom of conscience while fostering a cohesive set of common beliefs, often taking the form of a real religion, to bind society together. [k:w: Giuseppe Mazzini, John Stuart Mill, Saint-Simonian Philosophy of History, Liberty, Liberalism] [Publisher's text]