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John Stuart Mill
1806 - 1873
Nationality:
English
Historical Period:
The 19th Century
Groups
- Other Authors Recommended by Pierre Goodrich
- 19th Century Utilitarians
- The Classical School of Political Economy
- The Philosophical Radicals
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was the precocious child of the Philosophical Radical and Benthamite James Mill. Taught Greek, Latin, and political economy at an early age, He spent his youth in the company of the Philosophic Radicals, Benthamites and utilitarians who gathered around his father James. J.S. Mill went on to become a journalist, Member of Parliament, and philosopher and is regarded as one of the most significant English classical liberals of the 19th century.
For additional information about John Stuart Mill see the following:
- detailed Table of Contents of the 32 vol. Complete Works
- Essays on JS Mill
- Timeline on the Life and Work of J.S. Mill
- at our sister website Econlib: the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics entry on Mill
Titles:
- Author: BOLL 5: John Stuart Mill, “Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual” (1859)
- Author: BOLL 48: J.S. Mill, “Utilitarianism” (1863)
- Author: BOLL 57: J.S. Mill, “The Spirit of the Age” (1831)
- Author: Introductions to the Robson Edition of the Collected Works of J.S. Mill
- Author: BOLL 62: J. S. Mill, “On Representative Government” (1861)
- Author: BOLL 67: John Stuart Mill "The Difficulties of Socialism" (1879)
- Author: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume I - Autobiography and Literary Essays
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume II - The Principles of Political Economy I
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume III - Principles of Political Economy Part II
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume IV - Essays on Economics and Society Part I
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume V - Essays on Economics and Society Part II
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume VI - Essays on England, Ireland, and the Empire
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume VII - A System of Logic Part I
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume VIII - A System of Logic Part II
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume IX - William Hamilton’s Philosophy
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume X - Essays on Ethics, Religion, and Society
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XI - Essays on Philosophy and the Classics
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XII - The Earlier Letters 1812-1848 Part I
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XIII - The Earlier Letters 1812-1848 Part II
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XIV - The Later Letters 1849-1873 Part I
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XV - The Later Letters 1849-1873 Part II
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XVI - The Later Letters 1849-1873 Part III
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XVII - The Later Letters 1849-1873 Part IV
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XVIII - Essays on Politics and Society Part I
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XIX - Essays on Politics and Society Part 2
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XX - Essays on French History and Historians
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXI - Essays on Equality, Law, and Education
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXII - Newspaper Writings Part I
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings Part II
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIV - Newspaper Writings Part III
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXV - Newspaper Writings Part IV
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVI - Journals and Debating Speeches Part I
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVII - Journals and Debating Speeches Part II
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part I
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIX - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part II
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXX - Writings on India
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXXI - Miscellaneous Writings
- Author: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXXII - Additional Letters
- Author: On Liberty and The Subjection of Women (1879 ed.)
- Author: Principles of Political Economy (Ashley ed.)
- Author: The Subjection of Women (1878 ed.)
Quotations:
- J.S. Mill denounced the legal subjection of women as "wrong in itself" and as "one of the chief hindrances to human improvement" (1869)
- J.S. Mill's great principle was that "over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign" (1859)
- J.S. Mill in a speech before parliament denounced the suspension of Habeas Corpus and the use of flogging in Ireland, saying that those who ordered this "deserved flogging as much as any of those who were flogged by his orders" (1866)
- J.S. Mill was convinced he was living in a time when he would experience an explosion of classical liberal reform because "the spirit of the age" had dramatically changed (1831)
- J.S. Mill spoke in Parliament in favour of granting women the right to vote, to have "a voice in determining who shall be their rulers" (1866)
- J.S. Mill in <em>The Subjection of Women</em> argued that every form of oppression seems perfectly natural to those who live under it (1869)
- John Stuart Mill on the "atrocities" committed by Governor Eyre and his troops in putting down the Jamaica rebellion (1866)
- John Stuart Mill on the need for limited government and political rights to prevent the "king of the vultures" and his "minor harpies" in the government from preying on the people (1859)
- John Stuart Mill uses an analogy with the removal of protective duties and bounties in trade to urge a similar "Free Trade" between the sexes (1869)
- John Stuart Mill discusses the origins of the state whereby the "productive class" seeks protection from one "member of the predatory class" in order to gain some security of property (1848)
- John Stuart Mill on "the sacred right of insurrection" (1862)
- Mill on the dangers of the state turning men into "docile instruments" of its will (1859)
- J.S. Mill on the wife as the "actual bondservant of her husband" in the 19th century (1869)
- John Stuart Mill on the "religion of humanity" (c. 1858)