John Stuart Mill

Tags: Philosopher.

John Stuart Mill FRSE (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher political economist and civil servant. He was an influential contributor to social theory political theory and political economy. He has been called the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. Mill’s conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control.

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birth date

1806-05-20

birth place

London, Pentonville

death date

1873-05-08

death place

Avignon, France

era

Classical economics, 19th-century philosophy

individualised GND number

118582461

influenced

Bertrand Russell, Karl Popper, Peter Singer, Robert Nozick, H. L. A. Hart, Paul Krugman, Ronald Dworkin, Will Kymlicka, Sam Harris (author), Carlos Vaz Ferreira, John Maynard Keynes, Paul Feyerabend, Isaiah Berlin, A. C. Grayling, William James, Christopher Hitchens, Norman Finkelstein, John Rawls, Wilhelm Dilthey, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, John N. Gray, Zechariah Chafee

influenced by

Adam Smith, Aristotle, David Hume, David Ricardo, Epicurus, George Berkeley, John Locke, Plato, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Hobbes, Francis Place, Harriet Taylor Mill, Thomas Aquinas, Jeremy Bentham, Wilhelm von Humboldt, William Wordsworth, Alexis de Tocqueville, James Mill, Alexander Bain, Auguste Comte, Claude Henri de Rouvroy comte de Saint-Simon, Jean-François Marmontel, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LCCN Id

n/79/7044

main interest

Political philosophy, Inductive reasoning

notableIdea

Utilitarianism, Mill's Methods, Harm principle

philosophicalSchool

Empiricism, Utilitarianism