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 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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Essays on Economics and Society, 1967
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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.
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"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]
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"A Feminine Philosopher". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1873.