John Stuart Mill
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| - | '''John Stuart Mill''' ([[20th May]] [[1806]] – [[8th May]] [[1873]]), was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[philosopher]], [[political economy|political economist]] and [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Member of Parliament]], was an influential [[liberalism|liberal]] thinker of the [[19th century]]. He was an advocate of [[utilitarianism]], the ethical theory that was systemized by his godfather, [[Jeremy Bentham]], but adapted to [[German romanticism]]. It is usually suggested that Mill is an advocate of [[negative liberty]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [May 2007] | + | '''John Stuart Mill''' ([[20th May]] [[1806]] – [[8th May]] [[1873]]), was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[philosopher]], [[political economy|political economist]] and [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Member of Parliament]], was an influential [[liberalism|liberal]] thinker of the [[19th century]]. He was an advocate of [[utilitarianism]], the ethical theory that was systemized by his godfather, [[Jeremy Bentham]], but adapted to [[German romanticism]]. It is usually suggested that Mill is an advocate of [[negative liberty]]. |
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John Stuart Mill (20th May 1806 – 8th May 1873), was a British philosopher, political economist and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was an advocate of utilitarianism, the ethical theory that was systemized by his godfather, Jeremy Bentham, but adapted to German romanticism. It is usually suggested that Mill is an advocate of negative liberty.
Harriet Taylor
In 1851, Mill married Harriet Taylor after 21 years of an intimate friendship. Taylor was married when they met, and their relationship was close but chaste during the years before her first husband died. Brilliant in her own right, Taylor was a significant influence on Mill's work and ideas during both friendship and marriage. His relationship with Harriet Taylor reinforced Mill's advocacy of women's rights. He cites her influence in his final revision of On Liberty, which was published shortly after her death, and she appears to be obliquely referenced in The Subjection of Women. Taylor died in 1858 after developing severe lung congestion, only seven years into her marriage to Mill.
On the modern world
- For, what is the peculiar character of the modern world--the difference which chiefly distinguishes modern institutions, modern social ideas, modern life itself, from those of times long past? It is that human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them most desirable. Human society of old was constituted on a very different principle. All were born to a fixed social position and were mostly kept in it by law. -- John Stuart Mill in The Subjection of Women (1869)
