Isabel de Almeida Brand

Course
Doctorate Degree
Research title
THE RATIONALISM AND ROMANTICISM OF JOHN STUART MILL
Research abstract

Our objective is to analyze how John Stuart Mill’s political and moral philosophy creates a tension between Enlightenment and Romantic conceptions by articulating the authenticity of human agency with an expanded notion of morality. Along this path, the specific objectives are: (a) to investigate how rationalist, romantic, and aesthetic elements support Mill’s defense of individual liberty and character formation

Graduate Advisor
Alberto Ribeiro Gonçalves de Barros