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To some people, Utilitarianism seems to be the only ethical philosophy which is obviously correct. To others, it seems to be quite misconceived, even reprehensible. Biography of John Stuart Mill. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was a British philosopher, economist, moral and political theorist, and administrator. He was the most influential.
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational.
Here is what John Stuart Mill writes in On Liberty, Chapter IV, “Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual” paragraphs 13-16: The evil here pointed out is not one which exists only in theory; and it may perhaps be expected that I should specify the instances in which the public of this age and country improperly invests its own preferences with the character of moral laws.
John Stuart Mill's analysis of women is compatible with Karl Marx's analysis of workers in capitalism from the perspective of the hierarchies that define relationships between the weaker groups from the stronger ones. The deliberate subjugation of one group by another for the purposes of pursuing the interests of the powerful group is the glue that joins Mill's argument about women to Karl.
John Stuart Mill did not create a system of ethics but rather defended a. system created by his father, James Mill, and Jeremy Bentham. This. system was called utilitarianism. Utilitarianism has the premise that. the rightness or wrongness of actions is determined by the goodness or. badness of their consequences. I feel that this is a very.
He is the author of John Stuart Mill: Moral, Social and Political Thought (Polity, 2010). He is the co-editor of several collections: John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (Oxford 2011, with Ben Eggleston and David Weinstein); Morality, Rules and Consequences (Edinburgh 2000, with Brad Hooker and Elinor Mason); and The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism (forthcoming from Cambridge, with Ben.
John Stuart Mill observed in his Autobiography that he was a rare case in nineteenth-century Britain because he had not lost his religion but never had any. He was a freethinker from beginning to end. What is not often realized, however, is that Mill's life was nevertheless impinged upon by religion at every turn. This is true both of the close relationships that shaped him and of his own.