PHIL 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Compulsory Education
16 Oct 2017
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Bentham: the maximum of one"s actions is to maximize utility, the principal of utility. Mill: the principal of greatest happiness maximizes happiness minimize misery, how individuals and the government are related in a democratic society. Essay on liberty, define relationship between individual and power that can be exercised over people and the limits of that power. On liberty: mill was a student of bentham, and original contributor to utilitarianism, he wrote a feminist text. Following up principal of the greatest happiness considered how the individual and the government should be related. In essay on liberty: he set out to define 1) the relationship between the individual and any power that can be legitimacy exercised over him and 2) the limits of such power. Thus individuals not only should be protected from the power of an officer but also from tyranny of the dominant opinion and feeling of the society.
