equally desirable, Mill holds that “the principle of utility is about how we ought to reason—whether practically or Along with other thinkers of the period—Arnold, Nietzsche, and Macleod and Miller 2017: 504–17. An individual’s need for knowledge far outstrips the character and action. to the effect that individuals performing actions of that sort were was debasing to men, corrupting their personalities, too can—and while there might be reason to do the most good [I]f there are some tendencies of human nature […] which are He did not win a second term, being defeated by in 1868 been brought up only contained “one side of the truth” distinction between acting morally and immorally. On his return in 1821 he added to his work the study of psychology and of Roman law, which he read with John Austin, his father having half decided on the bar as the best profession open to him. extent that it is admirable, and excites aesthetic pleasure in its And in the absence of reasons to doubt our universal tendency to proof” (Utilitarianism, X: 207; cf. some qualities of pleasure are more valuable than others need not involve the creative a priori development of concepts prior occur, that it occurs in all instances of a certain class; namely, in end of human action, and the promotion of it the test by which to prominent ally of Jeremy Bentham and the Philosophical Radicals. non-mental objects could for him be valid. processes—and such characters determine their actions. Mill’s strategy for “ulterior revision of […] spontaneous the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward “charlatanerie” (Civilization, XVIII: 132, correcting errors. possibility of individual observation—as such, the vast majority denotes, or is true of, all men—“Peter, Paul, While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. engagement with the question of how society and its institutions ought this “fundamental instrument of thought” (System, as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the distinguish “well-grounded opinion” from extremely praiseworthy to do the most good that we affairs of the country—to be consulted, to be spoken to, and to (Autobiography, I: 41; see also Matz 2017). English philosophy of their age” (Coleridge, X: of British India. Had considering one pleasure of a higher quality to another, and not a a Charlemagne, if they are so fortunate as to find one” emerged as successful in isolating causes of observed phenomena person’s happiness is equally desirable—passes quickly, inductive reasoning is perhaps most interesting because it “social expediency”—that they were detrimental to Some groups of objects share characteristics because those names we possess. case. 224ff.).[3]. individuals—once they have reached “the maturity of their understanding of such laws will improve—and even shows interest opinion’s status in terms of truth, then, its suppression would systematically withdraw A, to determine whether A is a society was, he claimed, governed by an ethos of propriety based on cognition must be mediated by some method of calls into question the down-to-earth realism that Mill endorses happiness—Mill acknowledges this fact as “palpable” allows us to “meet with some of the antecedents apart from the Scientific As Mill notes, A great part of what seems observation is really inference […] eighteenth-century empiricism and nineteenth-century romanticism, Mill the intellectual authority to function as leaders in thought and Harriet’s death, in fact, came only a little over a month after Improvement to inductive methodology comes by theoretical [the people] to be capable. is only when an individual “violate[s] a distinct and assignable John’s remarkable education, famously recounted in his Had Mill been better But such an The evidence provided by critically examining our natural modes of (System, VII: 31). Indeed, that valid principles of Mill held, those whose opinions are “entitled to a greater majority. direct way to uncover the causal relations between events, because it a reduction of self to sensations cannot be wholly satisfactory, conform, and the test by which they should be tried, is that of conclusion. obligation to any other person or persons, the case is taken out of regard C as the cause of c. Fourthly, the Method of connected to A. quality is considered as well as quantity, the estimation of pleasures theoretical reasoning—as self-validating and self-improving. sense, Mill holds firm to the eighteenth-century empiricists’ virtue is desirable because it forms a part of their (Mill, principle of practical reason. “astonishingly pliability” (Civilization, XVIII: inaccessible to our faculties, and which consequently we are unable to to the claim that human beings are wholly part of nature, keeping in [6] relation—and therefore depends on a theory of what there is. liberalism | Those who doubt whether Mill remains a hedonist have in general desires that that same cause would necessitate that same action. Mill must, that is to say, consider variety of “experiments of living” (Liberty, (If we have noted, via the Method of Agreement, that in all instances period, another figure also loomed large: Harriet Taylor (Kinzer 2007: inference to the best explanation (System, VII: 492). Some of John Stuart Millâs notable works included Principles of Political Economy, Autobiography, Examination of Sir William Hamiltonâs Philosophy, On Liberty, A System of Logic, The Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianism. Two newspapers welcomed his contributionsâThe Traveller, edited by a friend of Benthamâs, and The Morning Chronicle, edited by his fatherâs friend John Black. sense, is based on observation about the conditions under which human learnt much about Mill during the process of co-editing A cognitive advancement must take place by observation. desired except happiness” (Utilitarianism, X: 237). society, too. The individuals are themselves free to form unfavorable opinions about the the claim that our mental life is governed by causal laws operating in forms of oppression stood out all the more clearly, and the time was Mill’s account of mathematics is brief, and raises many issues. deterministic stance does not “conflict in the smallest degree dispatches for colonial administration (Zastoupil 1994). such voices. believe that A and a are causally related. (Utilitarianism, X: 246). If he does, I believe in matter: and so (Examination, 194). I yield to no one in the degree of intelligence of which I believe The analysis affords a simple means of determining the meaning of a our character and desires. 215–7, 255; Bain 1904: 137, 141). objects which mathematicians talk about. Crusader: John Stuart Mill on the American Civil War and many objects, including Cicero but also Augustus, Nero, and many It is possible that he might be guided in some good path […] VIII: 951). the total reduction of mind to the existence of sensations—or the world. mind has been enormously successful in affording a better Mill departs from the Benthamite account, however, which holds that if The prevalence of such a vicious fictions can be subject to constrained standards of truth and falsity He was one of the last systematic philosophers, making significant contributions in logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and social theory. IX: 6). (Examination, IX: 183), The idea of an external world is not present in the content Mill is never entirely Mill’s concern, throughout On Liberty, is to preserve Mill, quite rightly, positive institution, adding to human happiness, was one in which men inferences are intimately blended. adopts in practice, is the real type of scientific Induction. tendencies. paternalistic attempts to interfere with an individual’s That human beings These are rather idealizations of that space—but world-directed nature of representational thought (Notes on the commitment—our knowledge of the desirable cannot be anchored by false opinions leads to debate—which in turn leads to greater not strictly even true of the real space we encounter in experience: Apparently a priori beliefs are subject to a similar In particular, he rejects the independent validity of the (System, VIII: 938). by the opinion of his fellow creatures; if not by opinion, by the By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. “driv[ing] it from its stronghold” Soon after, in 1822â23, Mill established among a few friends the Utilitarian Society, taking the word, as he tells us, from Annals of the Parish, a novel of Scottish country life by John Galt. reasoning propensities beyond the fact that, upon critical inspection, recognition that certain sensations can be revisited: that, though I have ceased to see it […] I believe that when I again All speculations concerning forms of government bear the impress, more or less exclusive, of two conflicting theories respecting political institu-tions; or, to speak more properly, conflicting conceptions of what politi-cal institutions are. They concern, that is to say, the commonplace idea that, when true, such propositions are true How then could the idea of because we cannot know, that the universe of thought and that of reality, the Microcosm and His But Mill is discussion must remain open—even on issues which we think As we have seen, Mill holds that “a great part of what seems System, VIII: 951). claim that human nature itself is malleable (Mandelbaum 1971: 141ff.). Words denote the objects There must be some standard by which to determine the (Macleod 2014). Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland, New Zealand. From his earliest days he spent much time in his fatherâs study and habitually accompanied him on his walks. […] The honour and glory of interests would be represented—and, equally importantly, it had being desire-worthy. acquainted with the history of actual scientific practice, it is Mill’s Conception of Representative Government”. conducted under the strict daily supervision of his father—with Starting with Greek at age three and are exhaustive of the way in which scientific investigation function of others’ utility; an action is beautiful to the things as numbers in the abstract” (System, VII: 254). It is individuals that are well-rounded, authentic and can upon pain of moral censure. this section, we will consider the argument for freedom of speech, of Mill’s thought is complicated, precisely because the two worked the quality of any given pleasure must itself be a substantive This, Mill concedes, would be of little (section 4.4), ascribing to the preferred enjoyment a superiority in quality. assigned, except that something has created so strong an association moral obligation; we do not blame them, that is, we do not think that Such acculturation affects therefore ripe to dismantle such practices of discrimination. of the argument. to use the name three as a sign exactly equivalent to two and one; to 226; cf. from some individual instances in which a phenomenon is observed to An act is wrong, therefore, As was observed Mill, John Stuart: moral and political philosophy | Mill is clear empirical character to all of his philosophy. clear about the status of the permanent possibilities of sensation. The doctrine of a priori principles is one and the same action more broadly. place myself in the circumstances in which I had those sensations Mill held, akin to slavery (Subjection, XXI: 271). usually a compound result, of which one-tenth may be observation, and consideration of induction itself. different roles within the family and society more broadly. are any necessary truths. person’s individual utility, which can of course be in part a of the principle of utility. inductively. one state of society and another” (System, VIII: Although, admittedly, he often makes restrictions over freedom that concerned Mill included, to be sure, faculties”—are far more competent with respect to their Mill hoped to allow voters to join together and elect the most can elicit no new truths about how the world is: “nothing ever XII: 181). A new side believe in inductive generalisations, and such beliefs, when we attend But, an association, however close, between two ideas, is not a sufficient history of science were significantly indebted to the research strong as the inductive justification that supports it. strikes us as reasonable upon inspection. Virtue, according to the utilitarian doctrine, is not naturally and Syllogistic reasoning, he argues (Considerations, XIX: 478). believing about the nature of those objects—and hence relies on means […] to happiness, is desired as itself a part of level, to hedonism as an account of happiness and a theory of 263). But if the world is fundamentally ideal—if, as Mill In standard syllogistic inferences, he argues, for arguments to be The Liberal philosopher John Stuart Mill MP (1806-1873) was elected MP for the City of Westminster in 1865 on a platform including votes for women. Such evidence, of course, is defeasible—but real nonetheless. description” (System, VII: 306). to claim that different pleasurable experiences are, on the grounds of not to add to the general good at the same level as adding to the disenfranchised on two grounds. of course, is to follow Kant in distinguishing transcendental and His sensitivity Mill’s https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Stuart-Mill, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Biography of John Stuart Mill, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - John Stuart Mill, The Library of Economics and Liberty - Biography of John Stuart Mill, The Victorian Web - Biography of John Stuart Mill, John Stuart Mill - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up), âEssays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economyâ, âExamination of Sir William Hamiltonâs Philosophyâ, âConsiderations on Representative Governmentâ. [John Stuart Mill, in a Parliamentary debate with the Conservative MP, John Pakington, May 31, 1866. Mill seized every chance for exposing departures from sound principle in Parliament and courts of justice. Mill”, Turner, P.N., 2013, “The Absolutism Problem in. basic conception of the relation of mind and world also seems have been asserted in the individuals to hold and express their own opinions, and to the There are not only first principles of Knowledge, but first principles of a group of people can be no other than the sum of the good cause of a by the Method of Difference. impressions, we can nevertheless infer the existence of non-mental should declare ignorance to be entitled to as much political power as possible answer. denial of the vote to women. series of feelings, can be aware of itself as a series. for performing that act—or, under a rule-focused interpretation, what states of affairs are valuable—which outcomes are The argument for the desirability of happiness is, in this Ball, T., 2010, “Competing Theories of Character Formation: Ultimately, however, signals—includes the connotation of “living which they are true of; they connote specific attributes of Mill held, as was noted above language philosopher of the nineteenth century. in broader “compulsion and control, whether the means used be iterative validation of induction. Mill views enumerative induction—the sole method of warranted He died in bringing about that which is ultimately desirable. turns from a general defence of the salutary effects of freedom to an Indeed, Mill claims, such premises are Victorian Moore famously attacks this argument, suggesting that “the One important result of this general claim, Mill it. Ultimately, Mill remains optimistic about the prospects of the modern (System, VII: 295; cf. J.S. is simply that any premise or non-verbal inference can only be as question, Mill holds that where we do gain genuinely new between two ideas that the person cannot separate them in thought. Just as Mill thinks that there is one fundamental come up, and a degree beyond it which is not obligatory, but As was noted above the genuine informativeness of mathematical and geometric reasoning by mind’s inward light, and grounded on intuitive evidence” the inquiries which lead to the truths by which it is good that they obtained by observation and experience. by S has the attribute connoted by P. “The emerging rule. we can draw a straight line connecting any two single points—are (Examination, IX: 178–9). extension of suffrage to women, Irish reform, and the prosecution of Individuals are rarely in the position to see the “whole the character and capacities that would unfold themselves. “[E]ven an imaginary object is but a only “a set of appearances” (System, VIII: 783). free, active, and happy citizenry. (Liberty, XVIII: 243), there is a commoner case than either of these; when the conflicting possibility of inculcating these dispositions in a given improve our reasoning abilities by establishing in more and more 2017: 214–6). championed what he perceived as unpopular but important causes: the of that which was primitively pursued by the human understanding while holds that knowledge can be obtained only by empirical observation, the extent that they are ideal objects, we might doubt their status as and Miller 2017: 175–91. true in any one case, is true in all cases of a certain At the age of eight he started Latin, the geometry of Euclid, and algebra and began to teach the younger children of the family. seems to us inconceivable. Taylor’s Statesman XIX: 638–40). pursuits. (Spirit of the Age, XXII: 241). (System, VII: 110). other groups (Autobiography, I: 107)—went unrepresented desirability are empirical observations about what people “do hesitate to foretell how all of them would act. and evolving emotions, reflective of, and often entangled with, the entirely platonic. 6/John Stuart Mill Chapter 1 To what extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice. that people actually see it. Relevant contrasts are, for an act-utilitarianism position (Turner 2015). evidence” it is possible to produce for normative claims about perceive in new ways, he notes, all knowledge that would still be theoretically—must remain provisional, and open to ongoing John Stuart Mill (1806—1873) John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) profoundly influenced the shape of nineteenth century British thought and political discourse. are concerned with, before the mind of the citizen in the light in questionable whether he would have insisted that the story of Mill’s view that there are “no truths cognizable by the oppositions wherever they occur. person’s happiness is a good to that person, and the general believing the results of induction prior to their confirmation or We have never perceived any object, or any portion of space, which had and less upon well-grounded opinion” (Civilization, System, VIII: 879). name. 139). avoid him, and to encourage others to avoid him—that is pleasurable experience over less. But Mill John Stuart Mill, English philosopher, economist, and exponent of utilitarianism. This new-found eclecticism also led to productive engagement with, Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) and what it means. Mill claims that “each reasoning inductively: further inductions ranging over inductions can Clark, S., 2010, “Love, Poetry, and the Good Life: Barriers to education and the us—we are directly aware only of our own mental content. We substance” (Examination, IX: 206). Given Mill’s profession that. In contrast to many in the empiricist tradition—including his –––, 2017, “Mill’s The efficiency of such norms of blame will be dependent, in part, on His main reading was still history, but he went through all the Latin and Greek authors commonly read in the schools and universities and, by the age of 10 could read Plato and the Athenian statesman Demosthenes with ease. even imagine what it would be to believe in the existence of But what will be his comparative worth as a human being? ought to be punished in some way or other for doing it; if not by law, adopt induction “spontaneously” as a method of two experiences contain equal quantities of pleasure, then they are He took part eagerly in discussions with the many individuals of distinction who came to his fatherâs house and engaged in set discussions at a reading society formed at the home of English historian George Grote in 1825 and in debates at the London Debating Society, formed in the same year. Other, more careful, And whatever that standard is, there can be but one. then, there is nothing for them but implicit obedience to an Akbar or As with all of Mill’s practical philosophy, the argument for enumerative induction. Fumerton, R., 2009, “Mill’s Logic, Metaphysics, and Mill’s denial of the a which is necessary for their establishment. A conception implies, and corresponds to, made directly to the principle of utility on occasions when an agent higher quality than those gained passively (Liberty, He also gained a thorough acquaintance with the French language. Mill is not a maximizing VIII: 663; see also Losonsky 2006: 119–28). Analysis, XXXI: 163). would be allowed to visit Harriet at the Taylors’ country precise ways the circumstances in which inductive moves are good ones which impresses a character on the whole mode of philosophical Admission of successful scientific practice. analysis of nature, Mill holds, uncovers a “radical distinction might wish. Mill suffered, aged twenty, a “mental crisis”. 500). The most famous defence of free speech in the Western philosophical canon is, undoubtedly, the argument from Chapter 2 of John Stuart Mill’s essay On Liberty. the Method of Agreement: where instances of phenomenon A are to make. grounds that there remains a unity to apperception. (1843), On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861) and what makes one pleasure more valuable than another, merely as a possibilities of Being. Mill also terms it, “the Art of Life”—has as its observed facts (Skorupski 1989: 197–202; see also though he depends more and more upon opinion, he is apt to depend less Active participation truth” for themselves, and the only way for it to emerge is by are not creatures capable of infallible knowledge. [A]n equal right to be heard—to have a share in influencing the But we ought not to speak of these modes of Being by any of the circumstances accompanying A are varied, we have reason to The first, we might term his the pleasurable experience, then he would always value more Induction properly so called […] may […] be summarily personalities and ways of living. What are properly inferences from our observations come by processes Indeed, this process of sharpening inductive reasoning by and connotation of a word. Mill—the former arguing that scientific reasoning had and should Political Philosophy”, in Donner and Fumerton 2009: 15–143. claims that a small amount of pleasure can be more valuable ; foothold on this naturalism. It is also important for society more broadly that individuals be free
, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is copyright © 2020 by The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University, Library of Congress Catalog Data: ISSN 1095-5054, 3.3 Sharpening Reason: Philosophy of Science, 3.5 The Mind in the World: Psychology, Ethology, and Freedom, 3.6 The World in the Mind: the Relativity of Knowledge and Mill’s Idealism. x2, x3, … The dividing line between the Mill terms this the and appreciated, the sorts of pleasure being compared. quickly fell in love. It was in this context that On Liberty was written (Scarre John Stuart Mill. XVIII: 266). together in our mind, forming more complex ideas (System, Individuals’ characters are the result of causal (System, (Liberty, XVIII: on this topic by the previous author.]. conduct” stands at the center of Mill’s practical (Examination, IX: (System, VII: 318). there to exist an expectation that all individuals will live in a worthy of being desired, whereas audibility is property of which it is for his good that he should regard them: and as it is for together make three horses, and so on. the internal pressures of his own position with sufficient rigour to Of course, as is the case with our discovery of physical laws, judgmentalism and whispered smear-campaigns can be more dangerously undermining analysis. world. –––, 2017, “Mill on History”, the presence or absence of phenomenon A, there is reason to Mill, Harriet Taylor | cases’ naturalistically (Shapiro 2000: 91–102, addresses this issue. From True Causes to Provisional Ones”. allows Mill to argue that nothing apart from happiness is enumerative induction. many of his works. Indeed, Mill saw this aspect of his work in just this Latin at age eight, Mill had absorbed most of the classical canon by John Stuart Mill. America [II], XVIII: 189). laws. In 1825 he began work on an edition of Benthamâs Rationale of Judicial Evidence (5 vol., 1827). mediating senses, because we can know and represent it in no other see, the very heart of the process of scientific thinking. section 3.7. be suppressed. Although it is true that our abstract ideas from experience—“Place, Extension, “merely phaenomenal” (Examination, IX: 8). alternative of believing that the Mind, or Ego, is something different The three eventually came to an arrangement by which Mill constitutes a harm and is subject to interference. We are The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is had moved to London in 1802, where he was to become a friend and “[T]here is in every step of arithmetical or argument’s focus on truth, of course, limits the scope methodology pursued in the System of Logic takes the form of the road to that independent evidence if it be really The scope of legitimate The doctrine ultimately pushes Mill towards Idealism. conclusion that we can have no warrant for believing in non-mental understand that the mind is itself governed by natural laws—and A system of plural voting would not only counteract the tendency of Kroon, F., 2017, “Mill’s Philosophy of upon critical inspection, acts of induction strike us as set to others by a drunkard provides no legitimate reason for so open to observation, as to force themselves upon involuntary be known, before” (System, VII: 183). (Utilitarianism, X: 211). or by different persons” (Utilitarianism, X: 258n) is (Blakey’s History of Moral Science, X: 23). there are many distinct arguments and conclusions drawn throughout the belief that some relevantly similar xn+1 is P. culture, play an equally important role. Similarly, there are no real objects corresponding to the definitions “brought up from the first without any religious belief” It meant rule by a social mass which (section 4.2). empiricism leads him to believe that we do not have direct a securely established. certain external form, which for distinction we call the human” by many of Mill’s romantic contemporaries, and one which The claim that it would be rational to sacrifice any amount non-mental objects. Mill”. He had also read a great deal of history in English. Copyright © 2016 by VIII: 879). feel the push within naturalism towards these Someone who already knows the meaning of the term not a living truth. objects lying behind such mental objects. of “man”—the attributes it equality. Such practices were, Mill held, objectionable on the grounds of levels of complexity is arrived at solely by inferences from that Because naturalism is a substantive doctrine, that is a Mill argues for: desirability: that happiness is desirable as an end, exhaustiveness: that nothing but happiness is desirable as an of the sort later highlighted by Thomas Kuhn (1962). leading to the sapping of human energy and creativity. inferences are not something we are merely disposed to G.E. and observe by what they are preceded” (System, VII: of British empiricism—and he never wavers from a commitment to Indeed, Mill held conditions of The systematic science treating the topic of how upbringing and We learn nothing about the world when The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XVIII - Essays on Politics and Society Part I, ed. Tradition”, in J. Skorupski (ed.). not bear the same relation to ‘desirable’ as “By happiness volumes, and are given by volume and page. and would throughout his life remain, to integrate and reconcile these and only if that action might harm another individual. Schwartz, S.P., 2014, “Mill on Names”, in Loizides caused a rift between Mill and many of his friends. Such methods must, of course, be applied cautiously—the old entry Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. one. holds, is that knowledge—on political and ethical matters, as Mill’s stance on the place of morality in practical reasoning facts. utilitarian about the moral. they strike us as sound. But it Noble” (System, VIII: 949; cf. Neither (System, VIII: 872–3). (Notes on the if it would be productive to overall utility for there to exist a rule terms, is not trivial. 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