Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: The Good Life, Panopticon, John Stuart Mill
26 Sep 2018
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Political institutions: bentham and mill judge based on utility. Inspired by james mill who convinced him that democracy was the solution. If politicians had to respond to everybody in order to get elected, their interest would be for the entire group. It is also practically sensible because you let people make choice for themselves, individuals know their own best interest so we should give them the vote: so james mill proposes democracy, extended to all men (not women) John stuart mill: accepts 1 and 2 on the same grounds as bentham, e(cid:454)presses reser(cid:448)atio(cid:374)s a(cid:271)out ja(cid:373)es mill a(cid:374)d be(cid:374)tha(cid:373)"s ideas of de(cid:373)o(cid:272)ra(cid:272)(cid:455, when they were promoting democracy, they had little experience of what it was actually like. Ja(cid:373)es mill pushed the idea i(cid:374) the (cid:1005)8(cid:1006)(cid:1004)"s (cid:449)he(cid:374) it (cid:449)as a s(cid:373)all ele(cid:272)torate, (cid:449)a(cid:374)ted to expand it: aid it (cid:449)as (cid:862)the o(cid:374)e thi(cid:374)g (cid:374)eedful(cid:863) John stuart mill was writing three years later and was reading de tocquevillle.
