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John Stuart Mill

English philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)

"Stuart Mill" redirects here. For the town in Australia, see Stuart Mill, Victoria.

John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873)[1] was an English philosopher, political economist, politician 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 century" by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,[2] he conceived of liberty as justifying the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control.[3] He advocated political and social reforms such as proportional representation, the emancipation of women, and the development of labour organisations and farm cooperatives. The Columbia Encyclopedia 5th ed. says of him "at times Mill came close to socialism, a theory repugnant to his predecessors".[citation needed] He was a proponent of utilitarianism, an

The Life of John Stuart Mill

Abstract

It is an interesting circumstance that, although he died more than seventy-five years ago, there has been no full-length biography of John Stuart Mill until just recently. Until then the leading works were still the Autobiography, published by Helen Taylor immediately after his death in 1873, and Alexander Bain’s John Stuart Mill: a Criticism, which was published in 1882: the Life of John Stuart Mill, by W. L. Courtney, published in 1888 in the ‘Great Writers Series’, is largely based on these and, although not negligible, is of very minor importance. Later on, in the nineties, two important series of letters were published — the letters to d’Eichthalz 2 and Comte,3 and in 1910 Hugh Elliot published a two-volume edition of other correspondence.4 These added considerably to the volume of Mill’s works available. None of them, however, threw much light on the more private side of his life; the papers bearing on this were closely guarded by the family, and although Elliot saw them, he was not permitted to use them. In 1922 and 1927

Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) was a great liberal thinker of the nineteenth century, a noted philosopher, political theorist, and Member of Parliament. Mill was given a disciplined upbringing, his father deliberately shielding him from other children with the express aim of creating a philosophical genius to carry the mantle of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham and in which Mill went on to develop his own conception. The pressure of his intensive study affected Mill's mental health and he had a nervous breakdown at twenty. As Mill writes in chapter five of his autobiography, this was triggered by the huge physical and mental strain of his studies suppressing his natural childhood feelings.

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