John Rawls's lectures on John Stuart Mill (audio)

The secord part of John Rawls's lectures from 1984 on "Modern Political Philosophy" has now been published by the Harvard Philosophy Department. This part consists of 12 lectures (Lecture 12 - 23), which were delivered at Harvard University in the spring semester of 1984.

[See my post on the first part of Rawls's lectures (Lecture 1-11) here.]

Here are John Rawls's four lectures on John Stuart Mill:

Lecture 14


John Stuart Mill (I). Utilitarianism.

See John Rawls's "Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy" (Belknap Press, 2007) pp.  251-265, 270-271, 278.

Lecture 15


John Stuart Mill (II). Moral Rights. The Principle of Liberty. 

See John Rawls's "Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy" (Belknap Press, 2007) pp.  275-280, 284-293.

Lecture 16


John Stuart Mill (III). Mill's Doctrine as a Whole.

See John Rawls's "Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy" (Belknap Press, 2007) pp.  290-293, 297-313.

Lecture 17 (Incomplete)


John Stuart Mill (IV). Free Institutions. The First Principle of Justice.

See John Rawls's "Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy" (Belknap Press, 2007) pp. 297-313, and John Rawls's "Political Liberalism" (Columbia University Press, 1993), pp. 332ff.


Four of the other lectures (Lecture 19 - 21) are on Karl Marx.