Saturday, October 9, 2010

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

  • father, James Mill, was with Jeremy Bentham the founder of Utilitarianism 

Autobiography
  • gives an account of Mill's melancholia

On Liberty
  • argues that in a democracy, the rights of individuals must be safeguarded against the "tyranny of the majority"
  • "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is a sovereign"

"What is Poetry?"
  • defines poetry as the expression of the self to the self, as opposed to "eloquence", which is the expression of the self to another

The Subjection of Women
  • work that excoriates the mistreatment of women from a philosophical, moral and economic perspective

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