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John Stuart Mill Birth Date
John Stuart Mill was born 20 May 1806 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a739VjqdSI -
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Younger years
From the age of 3, John learned Greek; at the age of 5, he learned Latin. When he was 12, he had already known algebra, Euclid, Scottish, and English historians. Growing up during his teenage years, he also studied political economy, logic, and calculus. During his spare time, he digests treatises on experimental science. By the age of 15, he started work on the major treatises of philosophy, psychology, and government. -
Mental Crisis
J.S Mill suffered nervous breakdowns from depression. The cause of his depression was the intense stress on education, his overbearing father, and other factors. After his depression, he started rethinking his life choices and began to rethink his theories. -
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liberty and utilitarianism
In 1832 one of his mentors, Bentham died. Following his father's death in 1836. In 1843, Mill's A System of Logic was his most comprehensive and systematic philosophical work. These touched on Mill's thoughts about inductive logic and the shortcomings of the use of syllogism. -
Publication of On Liberty
The year 1859 marked the publication of On Liberty, Mills’ landmark work on supporting individuals' moral and economic freedom from the government and society at large. Mill wrote of "the importance, to man and society . . . , of giving full freedom to human nature to expand itself in innumerable and conflicting directions,” an idea fully fleshed out in On Liberty. -
Utilitarianism
In 1861, the moral philosophy of Jeremy Bentham would go on to be Mill's most famous work. Bentham's philosophy and refutes certain misconceptions. In sum, Utilitarianism as a moral rests on a single sentence: "Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." Mill argues that Utilitarianism stems from "natural" sentiments that exist organically within human beings' social nature. -
Subjection of Women
Mill published the essay in 1869 in memory of his late wife, Harriet Taylor Mill. In the article, Mill argues for equality between men and women. He developed the essay with Harriet’s help. At the time of publication, “The Subjection of Women” caused outrage for its radical propositions. -
John Stuart Mill death
Mill died of erysipelas in Avignon, France, with a fever and was buried next to his wife.