J.E.B. Stuart

Although they had different views on whos happiness was more important, both Aristotle and John Stuart Mill agreed that the end would bring happiness. Even though they agreed on this, they argued over the fact of what the end was. “The Utilitarian view of happiness is slightly different than that of Aristotle. Both Aristotle and Utilitarian’s would…

potential. This is invaluable to understand for the best and the most prosperous path for the society to live in. To further explore Mill’s concept of liberty, two supplementary readings that I’ve used are a scholarly published article titled—John Stuart Mill and the “Marketplace of Ideas”—by Jill Gordon and an excerpt from Frederick Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty that concerns primarily on freedom. For Gordon’s article on Mill, the paper concentrated on the metaphor that conventional…

we prioritize. Actions plus intentions equal outcomes. Priority means morality or where it resides, also what we can consider as important. Some consider the consequences as the most important aspect of the equation. Such as Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. These philosophers want to maximize the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people. Also known as Utilitarianism. This focuses on the nobility of a person and that their choices will always reflect who they are. Therefore…

Can society advance without all of its people? In John Stuart Mill’s essay “On Liberty”, he makes the argument that we should have the freedom to perform any actions we wish, as long as those are not causing harm to any others. Mill makes a number of justifications for his argument throughout his essay. He understands that in order for society to function, there needs to be certain restrictions on individual’s liberty. He believes society’s control over an individual’s liberty should only be…

that having free speech is important. For example, the overall well-being of Canadian residents is greater than the overall well-being of North Korean residents and we have free speech while North Koreans do not. In his famous work On Liberty, John Stuart Mill states that “[i]f all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind” (Mill 18). I will…

Utilitarianism A form of hedonist ethics known as Utilitarianism is the ethical system that follows the idea to pursue the greatest happiness for the greatest amount of people. This hedonist ethical system is a state of overall well-being and focuses on the intellectual, spiritual, and social aspects of happiness (Wilkens, 1995). Since the term utilitarianism derives from the idea of usefulness, so an action is deemed morally right if it succeeds or is useful in bringing about happiness.…

as one of the world’s most influential political manuscripts. Indeed, The Communist Manifesto was an attempt at explaining the underlying goals of communism, an ideology that contrasts heavily with the utilitarian views of English philosopher John Stuart Mill, who in 1859, published On Liberty, an application of utilitarianism to society and state. Evidently, Marx’s and Mill’s views leaned towards different ends of the political spectrum, although their opposing viewpoints did hold underlying…

This paper will endeavor to apply John Stuart Mill’s model of free speech to a situation brought to the forefront in an episode of TVO’s The Agenda, titled What is Wrong with Mark Steyn? The episode explores the issue of Maclean’s magazine refusing to publish a response to a series of articles by Steyn that were being viewed as hateful, as well as potentially harmful, to Muslim people in Canada. It will be argued that Mill would advocate for Maclean’s to publish a response to Steyn’s hateful…

The campus carry law refers to policies that allow appropriately licensed students and faculty to carry a handgun on campus as long as the gun is hidden from sight. Several states, including Texas, have passed a bill allowing campus carry; as a result, polarizing debates have ensued over the effectiveness of the law, or more specifically, whether campus carry is truly effective in decreasing gun violence on campus. In the article “How Guns Could Censor College Classrooms” the author, Firmin…

even if their views of feminism are slightly inaccurate. However, they likely do not know about many significant feminists in history. Three influential people that affected liberal feminism in their own ways are Mary Wollstonecraft as well as John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill. Before there can be an accurate understanding of how Wollstonecraft and the Mills contributed to liberal feminism, there needs to be a clear…