John Stuart Mill argued, in his Principles of Political Economy (1848, 7th edn., 1871), that existing laws and customs of private property ought to be reformed to promote a far more egalitarian form of capitalism than hitherto observed anywhere. He went on to suggest that such an ideal capitalism might evolve spontaneously into a …Web
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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
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Chapter 2. What Utilitarianism Is. A passing remark is all that needs be given to the ignorant blunder of supposing that those who stand up for utility as the test of right and wrong, use the term in that restricted and merely colloquial sense in which utility is opposed to pleasure. An apology is due to the philosophical opponents of ...Web
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His most important works include System of Logic (1843), On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861) and An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy (1865). 1. …Web
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In Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill continually references his critics in an attempt to show that all other ethical systems ultimately rely on utilitarianism's first principles: no matter how deeply they elaborate their moral values, at the end of the day all ethical theories see happiness and utility maximization as inherently good, thereby corroborating …Web
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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
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John Stuart Mill was a 19th-century English philosopher who was instrumental in the development of the moral theory of Utilitarianism and a political theory whose goal was to maximize the personal liberty of all citizens. He was able to inspire a number of social reforms in England during his lifetime after the Industrial Revolution had …Web
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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
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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
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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
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Related Links: Political Theory Related Links: Essays on JS Mill Source: This essay first appeared in the journal Literature of Liberty: A Review of Contemporary Liberal Thought, vol. 2, no. 2 April-June 1979 published by the Cato Institute (1978-1979) and the Institute for Humane Studies (1980-1982) under the editorial direction of Leonard P. Liggio. It is …Web
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Mill, John Stuart (1806–1873), philosopher, economist, and advocate of women's rights, was born on 20 May 1806 at 13 Rodney Street, Pentonville, London.He was the eldest of the nine children of the Scottish-born utilitarian philosopher and Benthamite reformer James Mill (1773–1836), and his wife, Harriet, née Burrow (1782–1854).His paternal grandfather, a …Web
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John Stuart Mill, 1806–1873 ... in championing utilitarianism as a political philosophy. And when Mill's son, John Stuart, was born, Bentham, having no children of his own, became his godfather. Together, Bentham and the elder Mill established a curriculum through which the younger Mill was schooled at home, an arrangement that was not ...Web
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This chapter reconstructs and provides an overview of John Stuart Mill's (1806–1873) ideas about self-interest, putting a special emphasis on what he called a political economy and on his Principles of Political Economy. ... hough it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that any one can best serve the happiness …Web
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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
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According to John Stuart Mill's (1806–1873) Liberty Principle, when certain social and cognitive conditions are satisfied and as long as no one else is harmed, an individual's self-regarding thoughts and actions ought to be protected from interference. The Liberty Principle forged the identity of Mill as a liberal and an anti-paternalist. Almost two …Web
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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
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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
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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
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This chapter reconstructs and provides an overview of John Stuart Mill's (1806–1873) ideas about self-interest, putting a special emphasis on what he called a …Web
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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
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