April 2024
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
26h 55m
English
John Stuart Mill (1806–73) was a British philosopher, economist, and statesman. As a liberal thinker, his thoughts represent a transition from negative liberalism towards positive liberalism. On one hand, he is influenced by utilitarians and on the other hand by idealists like Socrates and Plato. He is known as both the advocate of liberty and at the same time Ernest Barker called him the ‘prophet of empty liberty’. John Stuart Mill is a proponent of representative democracy, yet he is also known as a reluctant democrat. He is a utilitarian who destroyed utilitarianism. Thus, John Stuart Mill was a liberal, he could also be regarded, at the same time, as a reluctant democrat, a pluralist, a cooperative ...
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