John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was an English philosopher and political economist.[1] He was a classical liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was for utilitarianism, the ethical theory first proposed by his third godfather Jeremy Bentham.[2]
As a utilitarian, he believed that the good of society as a whole is more important than the pleasure of one or a few individuals.
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John Stuart Mill and Helen Taylor. Helen was the daughter of Harriet Taylor and collaborated with Mill for fifteen years after her mother's death in 1858.
"A Feminine Philosopher". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1873
"The utilitarian doctrine is, that happiness is desirable, and the only thing desirable, as an end; all other things being only desirable as means to that end." ~ John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism (1863)[3]
Essays on Economics and Society, 1967
References
- ↑ Macleod, Christopher (2020). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2020 ed.). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University.
- ↑ MacAskill, William (2021). "John Stuart Mill – Utilitarian Thinkers". Introduction to Utilitarianism: An Online Textbook. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
- ↑ Mill 1863, p. 51.