John Stuart Mill Essay

In this essay, I argue that John Stuart Mill and John Rawls make stronger arguments as liberal thinkers than Carl Schmitt does in his defense of state authority because they do not rely on theology in their works. With interest in Mill’s “On Liberty” and Rawls’s “A Theory of Justice,” it is impossible to ignore the liberal stand they take and the opposing views that Carl Schmitt takes in both “The Concept of the Political” and “The Age of Neutralizations and Depoliticizations.” According to…

John Stuart Mill discusses his theory on human nature in On Liberty. Mill portrayed his belief of the Harm Principle, which can be presented as the following: as long as one’s actions are not harming another person, the government nor society should intrude. The Harm Principle also protects the three basic liberties of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom to pursue tastes. Mill believes that the government should have the interests and opinions of the public in mind. On top of…

Aff In the words of John Stuart Mill a 19th century philosopher and political economist,” Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. In defense of the rights of an individual and in opposition to succumbing to despotism. I hereby affirm the resolution: adolescents ought to have the right to make autonomous medical choices. Seeing that this is debate of morals based on the…

English philosopher, political economist, and liberal John Stuart Mill published one of his most famous works in 1859: On Liberty. Mill explores the innate and given liberties of people, analyzing what is the extent in which society or government has valid reasons to exercise power over its people. He argues that the individual should not be under the jurisdiction of society or government if their actions are not harming anyone but themselves. The only time society or government should involve…

theorems in general; mathematical theorems are generalizations of past experience (Hempel 544). This means that mathematical theorems are empirically verifiable; if we ever found a scenario that 2+2=5 than we could possibly abandon the theorem that 2+2=4. Mill makes the case that mathematical truths are simply extensions of the results of empirical…

social or political power, Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill proposed their own stance on the influence government should have. Both individuals differ in their belief of individuality, liberty, freedom and self cultivation as forms that best define our human nature. Marx and Mill also differ in how such ideas are to be carried out. Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill explain their views based on the control government should possess. Mills, for example, believes that…

Throughout utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham propose the various way in which the state can be justified. Methods of justifying the state, for Bentham, was through political obligation, or the cost and benefit analysis of individuals rights. Mill’s reaction to Bentham’s statement was that it compromised the rights of not just all individuals, but mainly the rights of the minority population. Many issues are seen on Bentham’s idea on utilitarianism though proposed issues such…

John Stuart Mill, a British philosopher and political economist from the 1800’s once wrote, “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse.” (Mill, 1868) Mill goes on to explain the difference between a war that degrades men, and one that honors them. A degrading war is one in which generals use the men like instruments to implement their own desires. An honoring war is…

greatest number” (Merriam-Webster, 1). John Stuart Mill published Utilitarianism in 1861, in which he introduced a reinforced version of utilitarianism. His idea of utilitarianism presumes that all human kind should act in a way that only actions that benefit a vast amount of happiness or quantity should be acted upon. Given this, I will argue that utilitarianism is way too demanding and therefore unrealistic. I will begin by presenting several points that Mill states in his book Utilitarianism…

Welfarism The word ‘welfarism’ as a midway between capitalism and socialism is said to have been “coined by the British economist John Hicks, and introduced into contemporary debate about social justice by Amartya Sen; and connotes that the distribution of economic goods is evaluated by the effect it has on the welfare of the persons concerned” (Web 29/03/2017). In a similar way, Omoregbe in his book, Social – Political Philosophy, states that “welfarism as a ‘midway’ between capitalism and…