author - "John Stuart Mill"
Description John Stuart Mill was a prolific and well-regarded author and philosopher in his day, but perhaps his most enduring work is On Liberty, an essay developed over several years and with significant input from his wife. In it, he applies his views on the Utilitarian ethical theory to systems of society and governance. The result became one of the most influential essays on liberal political thought in modern history. In On Liberty Mill addresses such familiar concepts as freedom of
nd unimportant compared with the agreements; and he has not only enriched the exposition by many applications and illustrative details, but has appended to it a minute and very valuable discussion of the logical principles specially applicable to each of the sciences--a task for which the encyclopedical character of his knowledge peculiarly qualified him. I have in several instances made use of his exposition to improve my own, by adopting, and occasionally by controverting, matter contained in
ypotheses are real facts with some of their circumstances exaggerated or omitted 2553. Some of the first principles of geometry are axioms, and these are not hypothetical 256 4. --but are experimental truths 258 5. An objection answered 261 6. Dr. Whewell's opinions on axioms examined 264 CHAPTER VI. The same Subject continued. Sec. 1. All deductive sciences are inductive 281 2. The propositions of the science of number are not verbal, but generalizations from experience 284 3. In what sense
things from the thoughts awakened in me by the speculations of St. Simonians; but it was made a living principle, pervading and animating the book, by my wife's promptings."[4] The part which is italicised is noticeable. Here, as elsewhere, Mill thinks out the matter by himself; the concrete form of the thoughts is suggested or prompted by the wife. Apart from this "general tone," Mill tells us that there was a specific contribution. "The chapter which has had a greater
Description John Stuart Mill was a prolific and well-regarded author and philosopher in his day, but perhaps his most enduring work is On Liberty, an essay developed over several years and with significant input from his wife. In it, he applies his views on the Utilitarian ethical theory to systems of society and governance. The result became one of the most influential essays on liberal political thought in modern history. In On Liberty Mill addresses such familiar concepts as freedom of
nd unimportant compared with the agreements; and he has not only enriched the exposition by many applications and illustrative details, but has appended to it a minute and very valuable discussion of the logical principles specially applicable to each of the sciences--a task for which the encyclopedical character of his knowledge peculiarly qualified him. I have in several instances made use of his exposition to improve my own, by adopting, and occasionally by controverting, matter contained in
ypotheses are real facts with some of their circumstances exaggerated or omitted 2553. Some of the first principles of geometry are axioms, and these are not hypothetical 256 4. --but are experimental truths 258 5. An objection answered 261 6. Dr. Whewell's opinions on axioms examined 264 CHAPTER VI. The same Subject continued. Sec. 1. All deductive sciences are inductive 281 2. The propositions of the science of number are not verbal, but generalizations from experience 284 3. In what sense
things from the thoughts awakened in me by the speculations of St. Simonians; but it was made a living principle, pervading and animating the book, by my wife's promptings."[4] The part which is italicised is noticeable. Here, as elsewhere, Mill thinks out the matter by himself; the concrete form of the thoughts is suggested or prompted by the wife. Apart from this "general tone," Mill tells us that there was a specific contribution. "The chapter which has had a greater