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Economic democracyHis main objection of socialism was on that of what he saw its destruction of competition stating, "I utterly dissent from the most conspicuous and vehement part of their teaching – their declamations against competition." Mill was an egalitarian, but he argued more so for equal opportunity and placed meritocracy above all other ideals in this regard. According to Mill, a socialist society would only be attainable through the provision of basic education for all, promoting economic democracy instead of capitalism, in the manner of substituting capitalist businesses with worker cooperatives. He says:
The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end to predominate, is not that which can exist between a capitalist as chief, and work-people without a voice in the management, but the association of the labourers themselves on terms of equality, collectively owning the capital with which they carry on their operations, and working under managers elected and removable by themselves.[86][87]
Political democracyMill's major work on political democracy, Considerations on Representative Government, defends two fundamental principles: extensive participation by citizens and enlightened competence of rulers.[88] The two values are obviously in tension, and some readers have concluded that he is an elitist democrat,[89] while others count him as an earlier participatory democrat.[90] In one section he appears to defend plural voting, in which more competent citizens are given extra votes (a view he later repudiated). But in chapter 3 he presents what is still one of the most eloquent cases for the value of participation by all citizens. He believed that the incompetence of the masses could eventually be overcome if they were given a chance to take part in politics, especially at the local level.
Mill is one of the few political philosophers ever to serve in government as an elected official. In his three years in Parliament, he was more willing to compromise than the "radical" principles expressed in his writing would lead one to expect.[91]
John Stuart Mill was a massive proponent of the diffusion and use of public education to the working class. Mill saw the value of the individual person and he believed that “man had the inherent capability of guiding his own destiny-but only if his faculties were developed and fulfilled” which could be achieved through education.[92] Mill saw education as a pathway to improve human nature which to him meant "to encourage, among other characteristics, diversity and originality, the energy of character, initiative, autonomy, intellectual cultivation, aesthetic sensibility, non-self-regarding interests, prudence, responsibility, and self-control".[93] Education allowed for humans to develop into full informed citizens that had the tools to improve their condition and make fully informed electoral decisions. The power of education lay in its ability to serve as a great equalizer among the classes allowing the working class the ability to control their own destiny and compete with the upper classes. Mill recognized the paramount importance of public education in avoiding the tyranny of the majority by ensuring that all the voters and political participants were fully developed individuals. It was through education in which one could fully become a participant within representative democracy according to Mill.
Theories of Wealth and Income DistributionIn "Principles of Political Economy" Mill offered an analysis of two economic phenomena often linked together: The laws of production and wealth and the modes of its distribution. Regarding the former, Mill believed that it was not possible to alter to laws of production, “the ultimate properties of matter and mind... only to employ these properties to bring about events we are interested”.[94] The modes of distribution of wealth is a matter of human institutions solely, starting with what Mill believed to be the primary and fundamental institution: Individual Property.[95] He believed that all individuals must start on equal terms, with division of the instruments of production fairly among all members of society. Once each member has an equal amount of individual property, they must be left to their own exertion not to be interfered with by the state. Regarding inequality of wealth, Mill believed that it was the role of the government to establish both social and economic policies that promote the equality of opportunity. The government, according to Mill, should implement three tax policies to help alleviate poverty, (1) fairly assessed income tax, (2) an inheritance tax, and (3) a policy to restrict sumptuary consumption.[96]. Inheritance of capital and wealth plays a large role in development of inequality, because it provides greater opportunity for those receiving the inheritance. Mill’s solution to inequality of wealth brought about by inheritance was to implement a greater tax on inheritances, because he believed the most important authoritative function of the government is taxation, and taxation judiciously implemented could promote equality.[96]
The environmentMill demonstrated an early insight into the value of the natural world – in particular in Book IV, chapter VI of Principles of Political Economy: "Of the Stationary State"[97][98] in which Mill recognised wealth beyond the material, and argued that the logical conclusion of unlimited growth was destruction of the environment and a reduced quality of life. He concluded that a stationary state could be preferable to unending economic growth:
I cannot, therefore, regard the stationary states of capital and wealth with the unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school.
If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a better or a happier population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compel them to it.
Rate of profitAccording to Mill, the ultimate tendency in an economy is for the rate of profit to decline due to diminishing returns in agriculture and increase in population at a Malthusian rate.[99]
In popular culture Statue of Mill by Thomas Woolner in Victoria Embankment Gardens, London• Mill is the subject of a 1905 clerihew by E. C. Bentley:[100]
• Mill is mentioned in Monty Python's "Bruces' Philosophers Song" (1973) in the lines:[101]
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Major publicationsTitle / Date / Source
"Two Letters on the Measure of Value" / 1822 / "The Traveller"
"Questions of Population" / 1823 / "Black Dwarf"
"War Expenditure" / 1824 / Westminster Review
"Quarterly Review – Political Economy" / 1825 / Westminster Review
"Review of Miss Martineau's Tales" / 1830 / Examiner
"The Spirit of the Age" / 1831 / Examiner
"Use and Abuse of Political Terms" / 1832 / --
"What is Poetry" / 1833, 1859 / --
"Rationale of Representation" / 1835 / --
"De Tocqueville on Democracy in America [i]" / 1835 / --
"State of Society In America" / 1836 / --
"Civilization" / 1836 / --
"Essay on Bentham" / 1838 / --
"Essay on Coleridge" / 1840 / --
"Essays On Government" / 1840 / --
"De Tocqueville on Democracy in America [ii]" / 1840 / --
A System of Logic / 1843 / --
Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy / 1844 / --
"Claims of Labour" / 1845 / Edinburgh Review
The Principles of Political Economy: with some of their applications to social philosophy / 1848 / --
"The Negro Question" / 1850 / Fraser's Magazine
"Reform of the Civil Service" / 1854 / --
Dissertations and Discussions / 1859 / --
A Few Words on Non-intervention / 1859 / --
On Liberty / 1859 / --
Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform / 1859 / --
Considerations on Representative Government / 1861 / --
"Centralisation" / 1862 / Edinburgh Review
"The Contest in America" / 1862 / Harper's Magazine
Utilitarianism / 1863 / --
An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy / 1865 / --
Auguste Comte and Positivism / 1865 / --
Inaugural Address at St. Andrews Concerning the value of culture / 1867 / --
"Speech In Favour of Capital Punishment"[102][103] / 1868 / --
England and Ireland / 1868 / --
"Thornton on Labour and its Claims" / 1869 / Fortnightly Review
The Subjection of Women / 1869 / --
Chapters and Speeches on the Irish Land Question / 1870 / --
Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism / 1874 / --
Autobiography / 1873 / --
Three Essays on Religion / 1874 / --
Socialism / 1879 / Belfords, Clarke & Co.
"Notes on N. W. Senior's Political Economy" / 1945 / Economica N.S. 12
See also• John Stuart Mill Institute
• Mill's methods
• John Stuart Mill Library
• List of liberal theorists
• On Social Freedom
• Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
Notes1. Hyman, Anthony (1982). Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer. Princeton University Press. pp. 120–121. What effect did Babbages Economy of Machinery and Manufacturers have? Generally his book received little attention as it not greatly concerned with such traditional problems of economics as the nature of 'value'. Actually the effect was considerable, his discussion of factories and manufactures entering the main currents of economic thought. Here it must suffice to look briefly at its influence on two major figures; John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith
2. Varouxakis, Georgios (1999). "Guizot's historical works and J.S. Mill's reception of Tocqueville". History of Political Thought. 20(2): 292–312. JSTOR 26217580.
3. Friedrich Hayek (1941). "The Counter-Revolution of Science". Economica. 8 (31): 281–320. doi:10.2307/2549335. JSTOR 2549335.
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5. Michael N. Forster, After Herder: Philosophy of Language in the German Tradition, Oxford University Press, 2010, p. 9.
6. Ralph Raico (27 January 2018). Mises Institute (ed.). "John Stuart Mill and the New Liberalism".
7. Mommsen, Wolfgang J. (2013). Max Weber and His Contempories. Routledge. pp. 8–10.
8. Thouverez, Emile (1908), Stuart Mill. 4.ed. Paris: Bloud & Cie, p. 23.
9. Macleod, Christopher (14 November 2017). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University – via Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
10. "John Stuart Mill's On Liberty". victorianweb. Retrieved 23 July 2009. On Liberty is a rational justification of the freedom of the individual in opposition to the claims of the state to impose unlimited control and is thus a defense of the rights of the individual against the state.
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25. Lal, Vinay. "'John Stuart Mill and India', a review-article". New Quest, no. 54 (January–February 1998): 54–64.
Vinay Lal is Professor of History and Asian American Studies at UCLA. He writes widely on the history and culture of colonial and modern India, popular and public culture in India (especially cinema), historiography, the politics of world history, the Indian diaspora, global politics, contemporary American politics, the life and thought of Mohandas Gandhi, Hinduism, and the politics of knowledge systems.
Lal was born to an Indian foreign service officer in (Delhi) India in 1961 [Father's name nowhere to be found on the Internet: 5/22/20]. His father’s constant movement because of diplomatic career, he grew up in Delhi, Tokyo, Jakarta, and Washington, D.C. In Delhi he attended Springdales School. He spent four years in Tokyo, 1965–69, but has almost no memory of those years; and it is not until 1987 that he returned to Japan for a short visit, followed by a lengthier stay of four months in Osaka in 1999 when he was a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku).
He earned his BA and MA, both in 1982, from the Humanities Center at the Johns Hopkins University and
wrote his Master's thesis on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Indian philosophy. Lal then studied cinema in Australia and India on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship before commencing his
graduate studies at the University of Chicago, where he was awarded a PhD with Distinction from the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1992. He was William Kenan Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University in 1992–93, and since 1993 has been on the faculty of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he also holds a joint appointment in Asian American Studies.
-- Vinay Lal, by Wikipedia
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27. "No. 22991". The London Gazette. 14 July 1865. p. 3528.
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29. John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism and the 1868 Speech on Capital Punishment. (Sher, ed. Hackett Publishing Co, 2001)
30. "Editorial Notes". Secular Review. 16 (13): 203. 28 March 1885. It has always seemed to us that this is one of the instances in which Mill approached, out of deference to conventional opinion, as near to the borderland of Cant as he well could without compromising his pride of place as a recognised thinker and sceptic
31. Linda C. Raeder (2002). "Spirit of the Age". John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity. University of Missouri Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-0826263278. Comte welcomed the prospect of being attacked publicly for his irreligion, he said, as this would permit him to clarify the nonatheistic nature of his and Mill's "atheism".
32. Larsen, Timothy (2018). John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life. Oxford University Press. p. 14. ISBN 9780198753155. A letter John wrote from Forde Abbey when he was eight years old casually mentions in his general report of his activities that he too had been to Thorncombe parish church, so even when Bentham had home-field advantage, the boy was still receiving a Christian spiritual formation. Indeed, Mill occasionally attended Christian worship services during his teen years and thereafter for the rest of his life. The sea of faith was full and all around
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34. Shermer, Michael (15 August 2002). In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Biographical Study on the Psychology of History. Oxford University Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0199923854.
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45. Schenck v. United States, 249 US 47 – Supreme Court 1919
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Further reading• Alican, Necip Fikri (1994). Mill's Principle of Utility: A Defense of John Stuart Mill's Notorious Proof. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Editions Rodopi B. V. ISBN 978-9051837483.
• Bayles, M. D. (1968). Contemporary Utilitarianism. Anchor Books, Doubleday.
• Bentham, Jeremy (2009). An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Dover Philosophical Classics). Dover Publications Inc. ISBN 978-0486454528.
• Brandt, Richard B. (1979). A Theory of the Good and the Right. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198245506.
• Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "Mill, John Stuart" . Dictionary of National Biography. 37. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• López, Rosario (2016). Contexts of John Stuart Mill's Liberalism: Politics and the Science of Society in Victorian Britain. Baden-Baden, Nomos. ISBN 978-3848736959.
• Lyons, David (1965). Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism. Oxford University Press (UK). ISBN 978-0198241973.
• Mill, John Stuart (2011). A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Classic Reprint). Forgotten Books. ISBN 978-1440090820.
• Mill, John Stuart (1981). "Autobiography". In Robson, John (ed.). Collected Works, volume XXXI. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0710007186.
• Moore, G. E. (1903). Principia Ethica. Prometheus Books UK. ISBN 978-0879754983.
• Rosen, Frederick (2003). Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill. Routledge.
• Scheffler, Samuel (August 1994). The Rejection of Consequentialism: A Philosophical Investigation of the Considerations Underlying Rival Moral Conceptions, Second Edition. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198235118.
• Smart, J. J. C.; Williams, Bernard (January 1973). Utilitarianism: For and Against. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521098229.
• Francisco Vergara, « Bentham and Mill on the "Quality" of Pleasures», Revue d'études benthamiennes, Paris, 2011.
• Francisco Vergara, « A Critique of Elie Halévy; refutation of an important distortion of British moral philosophy », Philosophy, Journal of The Royal Institute of Philosophy, London, 1998.
External links
Mill's works• A System of Logic, University Press of the Pacific, Honolulu, 2002, ISBN 1410202526
• Works by John Stuart Mill at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about John Stuart Mill at Internet Archive
• Works by John Stuart Mill at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• The Online Books Page lists works on various sites
• Works, readable and downloadable
• Primary and secondary works
• More easily readable versions of On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Three Essays on Religion, The Subjection of Women, A System of Logic, and Autobiography
• Of the Composition of Causes, Chapter VI of System of Logic (1859)
• John Stuart Mill's diary of a walking tour at Mount Holyoke College
Secondary works[edit]
• Macleod, Christopher. "John Stuart Mill". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• John Stuart Mill in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Further information• Minto, William; Mitchell, John Malcolm (1911). "MILL, JOHN STUART". The Encyclopaedia Britannica; A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information. XVIII (MEDAL to MUMPS) (11th ed.). Cambridge, England and New York: At the University Press. pp. 454–459. Retrieved 9 September 2019 – via Internet Archive.
• Catalogue of Mill's correspondence and papers held at the Archives Division of the London School of Economics. View the Archives Catalogue of the contents of this important holding, which also includes letters of James Mill and Helen Taylor.
• John Stuart Mill's library, Somerville College Library in Oxford holds ≈ 1700 volumes owned by John Stuart Mill and his father James Mill, many containing their marginalia
• "John Stuart Mill (Obituary Notice, Tuesday, November 4, 1873)". Eminent Persons: Biographies reprinted from The Times. I (1870–1875). Macmillan & Co. 1892. pp. 195–224. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t6n011x45 – via HathiTrust.
• John Stuart Mill at Find a Grave
• Mill, BBC Radio 4 discussion with A. C. Grayling, Janet Radcliffe Richards & Alan Ryan (In Our Time, 18 May 2006)
• Portraits of John Stuart Mill at the National Portrait Gallery, London
• John Stuart Mill on Google Scholar
• John Stuart Mill, biographical profile, including quotes and further resources, at Utilitarianism.net.