CT255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: East India Company, John Stuart Mill, Free Trade
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Mental breakdown at 20 years old, and salvation in friendship with harriet taylor. As non-conformist, non-a(cid:374)gli(cid:272)a(cid:374), (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t allo(cid:449)ed to stud(cid:455) at o(cid:454)ford or ca(cid:373)(cid:271)ridge, so he worked for the east india trading company until 1858 (when taylor died after seven years of marriage) and began studies at university college in london. During 1860s he was head of university of st. andrew"s and a mp for westminster. Here is advocated for women"s right to vote, for labor unions and farm collectives. At the heart of mill"s philosophy was the need to maximize freedom/liberty to all areas of sociopolitical life. This philosophy argues that human goodness is simply advancing pleasure over pain. How society itself, not official laws and government, how its norms, ideas, the way society treats these things are problematic. Like a physicians, the problem of society is its attempt to make individuals to conform to a code of social behavior.