PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fundamental Justice, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
15 Feb 2017
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In theory, he was one of the man contributors to utilitarianism, along with jeremy bentham: he was a student of bentham and an original contributor to utilitarianism. He wrote one of the fi(cid:396)st fe(cid:373)i(cid:374)ist te(cid:454)t, (cid:862) u(cid:271)jugatio(cid:374) of wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:863: he was a political activist who served as an mp and advocated on behalf of the marginalized groups like workers, prisoners and colonial people, among others. Utilitarian takes the best maxim action to be utility. What reaction contributes to the overall balance of happiness to unhappiness. Democracy was the best form of government, however, it contains dangers and in following the principle of greatest happiness, he inevitably began to think and consider the relation between individuals and the government. In his essay on liberty he sets out, first, to define the relationship between the individual and any power that can be legitimately exercised over him, and second the limits that can be imposed on such power.
