John Stuart Mill, the classic exponent of liberalism, was brought up in utilitarian principles by his father, James Mill, a close friend and associate of Bentham. His rigorous childhood education, described in his Autobiography (1873), involved a...

English philosopher, political theorist and major classical economist. His father, James MILL, a close friend of BENTHAM, educated him at home in a rigorous programme which started with Greek at the age of 3 and reached political economy ten years...

John Stuart Mill (1806–73) was the son of James Mill who, with his close friend and collaborator Jeremy Bentham, entirely controlled his education, with the more or less explicit intention of producing a brilliant successor as an exponent of...

. 1806–73. The son of James Mill (1773–1836), who was a philosopher of somewhat similar tendencies, Mill was born in London where he worked in the India office. He is noted as an EMPIRICIST and early PHENOMENALIST, and in ethics as a...

John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), British philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was a teacher of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed...

As an important nineteenth or twentieth century work on political and social theory, John Smart Mill's essay On Liberty ([1859] 1975) is considered to be second only to the Communist Manifesto. Written in the midst of the growing political power of Christian temperance...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 On Liberty Chapter I: Introductory Introduction In Chapter One, Mill defines the problem which he intends to discuss, explains why he thinks it is an important problem, and indicates what his answer is. The remainder of the book is an elucidation...

Today is Sunday, May 20, the 140th day of 2007. There are 225 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Garden City, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo...

In her senior year at St. Gallway High School, Blue van Meer fulfills the dreams of all bookish, lonely girls: to get in with the in-crowd, score a hot prom date, land an acceptance from Harvard, wind up as valedictorian and solve the death by...

In the following essay, Collini traces Mill's posthumous reputation in late nineteenth and early twentieth century to argue that Mill's gradual incorporation into Britain's intellectual canon marks the consolidation of Britain's nationalist self-definition during this period of high imperialism.

In the following essay, Narveson explores the conflict between justice and utility in the thought of J. S. Mill.

In the following essay, Strasser evaluates Mill's moral stance and characterizes Mill primarily as an “act-utilitarian.”

Author John Stuart Mill's struggle with social isolation and understanding

Everyone wants to pursue happiness and nothing else. Mill, which Morales explains, states that this is the way to live; to do everything according to your own pleasure. Basically, everyone should live virtuously and good consequences will come.