No headers Figure 5.1 John Stuart Mill. John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) was a leading figure in nineteenth-century intellectual life. He made significant contributions to the fields of logic, economics, ethics, and social and political philosophy.Web

22 On Liberty, Part 2 (John Stuart Mill) On Liberty45. CHAPTER II. OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION. …To what an extent doctrines intrinsically fitted to make the deepest impression upon the mind may remain in it as dead beliefs, without being ever realised in the imagination, the feelings, or the understanding, …Web

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. ~ Jeremy Bentham Utilitarianism is a theory in normative ethics holding that the moral action is the one that maximizes utility.Utility is defined in various ways, including as happiness or pleasure, well-being and the lack of suffering.Utilitarianism is a form of …Web

In a series of writings on Mill, Collini relates Mill to his Victorian context and shows him to be a moralistic and energetic proponent of causes that at the time were dissident and …Web

The Liberal Self: John Stuart Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. –––, 2011. "Morality, Virtue, and Aesthetics in Mill's Art of Life," in Ben Eggleston, Dale E. Miller, and David Weinstein (eds.) John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Driver, Julia, 2004.Web

Abstract. 'Political economy and social philosophy, 1845–59' details the third phase of John Stuart Mill's intellectual growth, which commenced in the late 1830s. He and his wife …Web

Berger, Fred R. Happiness Justice and Freedom: The Moral and Political Philosophy of John Stuart Mill. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1984. Boucher, David, and P J Kelly. Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2017. Clor, Harry M. 'Mill and Millians on Liberty and Moral Character.'Web

John Stuart Mill dominated liberal thought during the nineteenth century with insights offered into the harm principle, free will, the despotism of custom, experiments in living, utilitarianism, the …Web

Before John Stuart Mill, other economists had argued that wealth was the subject of political economy. The starting point of James Mill's essay "Government" was to assume that "the actions of men are governed by their wills, and their wills by their desires: That their desires are directed to pleasure and relief from pain as ends, and ...Web

John Stuart Mill – On The Equality of Women Jeff McLaughlin. The Subjection of Women CHAPTER I. THE object of this Essay is to explain as clearly as I am able, the grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social or political matters, and which, instead of being weakened or modified, has …Web

John Stuart Mill, English philosopher, economist, and exponent of utilitarianism. He was prominent as a publicist in the reforming age of the 19th century, and he remains of lasting interest as a logician and an ethical theorist. Learn more about Mill's life, philosophy, and accomplishments in this article.Web

3.67. 6 ratings2 reviews. This book offers a clear and highly readable introduction to the ethical and social-political philosophy of John Stuart Mill. Dale E. Miller argues for a "utopian" reading of Mill's utilitarianism. He analyses Mill's views on happiness and goes on to show the practical, social and political implications that can be ...Web

John Stuart Mill 26 (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory and political economy. Dubbed "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth …Web

Abstract. In Considerations on Representative Government, John Stuart Mill concedes that secrecy in voting is sometimes justified but, nonetheless, maintains that it should be the exception rather than the rule. This article critically examines Mill's arguments. It shows that Mill's idea of voting depends on a sharp public/private distinction ...Web

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century, as well as a political economist and a prominant politician. ... and to love your neighbour as yourself constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality. As the practical way to get as close as possible to this ideal, the ethics ...Web

7.7: John Stuart Mill – On The Equality of Women ... was the arrangement most conducive to the happiness and well being of both; its general adoption might then be fairly thought to be some evidence that, at the time when it was adopted, it was the best: though even then the considerations which recommended it may, like so many other …Web

John Stuart Mill is often seen as an important figure in the transition from the classical liberalism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the more egalitarian, social welfare form of liberalism that emerged in response to the effects of the Industrial Revolution later in twentieth-century Britain. 1 For our purposes, however, it is perhaps more significant to …Web

In 1819, when John Stuart Mill had reached the ripe age of thirteen, James Mill decided that it was time for him to be initiated into the mysteries of political economy. In the course of their daily walks he lectured John on the subject: these lectures were then written up in note form, and submitted for rigorous criticism the following day.Web

John Stuart Mill is one liberal theorist who tackled the issue, but his arguments about the matter are often misconstrued. ... which it does under the current economic and political arrangements.) ... "John Stuart Mill on Androgyny and Ideal Marriage," Political Theory 19.4 (1991): 641. Mill, Political Economy, 765; Mill, …Web

The political aims will themselves be determined by definite political doctrines; for politics are now scientifically studied from the point of view of the working classes, and opinions conceived in the special interest of those classes are organized into systems and creeds which lay claim to a place on the platform of political philosophy, by ...Web

J. S. Mill, Autobiography. John Stuart Mill is rightly considered one of the greatest liberal thinkers. His seminal essay On Liberty is one of the most philosophically rich defences of basic liberal freedoms ever written. It is held in especially high regard these days: an inspiration for critics of cancel culture and postmodern Trumpism alike.Web

Photo by Donald Tong from Pexels. Being a liberal, Mill saw the role of government as needing to be limited. Freedom of the individual should in most cases trump the will of the government.Web

The Considerations on Representative Government was John Stuart Mill's most ambitious political treatise. It is without doubt the fullest statement we have of his mature political thought. 1. Representative Government was one of Mill's later works. It was written years after both A System of Logic (1843) and Principles of Political Economy ...Web

The Cambridge Companion to John Stuart Mill. John Stuart Mill by Henry Magid. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity by James Fitzjames Stephen. A study/reference guide to John Stuart Mill's political philosophy. …Web

He found these views most fully and powerfully expressed in three of John Stuart Mill's works: On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianism. ... equality, and fraternity exaggerated the advantages and ignored the disadvantages of the political arrangements intended by this famed triptych of values, thereby distorting a proper ...Web

1 Much has been written about John Stuart Mill's feminism, and it may be thought that little remains to be said. His commitment to equality has generally been acknowledged as positive, but certain passages have been damned as anti-feminist or myopic regarding the reality of patriarchy, and used as sticks with which to beat both Mill's theory and liberal …Web

The utilitarian morality does recognise in human beings the power of sacing their own greatest good for the good of others. It only refuses to admit that the sace is itself a good. A sace which does not increase, or tend to increase, the sum total of happiness, it considers as wasted.Web

In the final paragraph of On Liberty (paragraph 23 of "Chapter V: Applications") that I quote at the end of this post, John Stuart Mill contributes a twist on the debate about what is called "Federalism" in the US.He argues that while the central government should be slow to overrule regional and local governments, it should be quick to denounce actions …Web

Summary. Two hundred years after his birth, John Stuart Mill's interpreters still disagree about the extent of his commitment to democracy. Many maintain that he …Web

Abstract. John Stuart Mill's "liberty of thought and discussion" ( On Liberty, 1859) is both broader and narrower than some current understandings of free speech. On the one hand, Mill is not concerned only with state censorship: he argues against all attempts, official or otherwise, to restrict the range of opinion and public discussion.Web

Jonathan Riley is an Associate Professor of the Murphy Institute of Political Economy and the Department of Political Science, both at Tulane University. He is also the author of Liberal Utilitarianism and the World Classics edition of Mill's Principles of Political Economy and Chapters on Socialism. Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Mill on ...Web

Abstract. One way to think about capitalism-versus-socialism is to examine the extent to which capitalist economic institutions are compatible with the fulfillment of socialist ideals. The late G. A. Cohen has urged that the two are strongly incompatible. He imagines how it would make sense for friends to organize a camping trip, distills the ...Web

John Stuart Mill (1806–73) was the most influential English language philosopher of the nineteenth century. He was a naturalist, a utilitarian, and a liberal, whose work explores the consequences of a thoroughgoing empiricist outlook. In doing so, he sought to combine the best of eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinking with newly …Web