PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: On Liberty, Compulsory Education, Jeremy Bentham
4 Dec 2020
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John stuart mill: a student of jeremy bentham and an original contributor to utilitarianism. He wrote one of the first feminist texts subjugation of women. 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. In following up the principle of greatest happiness he inevitable began to consider how the individual and the government should be related. In his celebrated 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. Thus, individuals not only should be protected from the power of an officer of the state but also from the tyranny of the dominant opinion and feeling of the society.
