GVPT 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: John Stuart Mill, Continental Philosophy, Radical Change
4 May 2016
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2: opposition and growth; avoiding a mushy mud. Marx is continental philosophy and mills is english utilitarianism. Marx and mills believe the way forward in terms of reforming society does not involve revolution. Mills had very little sympathy for revolutionary change; but liked radical change like helping women in society. Liberal political theory: blindness to nature of culture itself. Argued for freedom of thought, expression, religion, from authority. Developed individuality and dissociates from earlier concepts of individual. Possessive individualism is what locke preached; dependent on how one dealt and lived in the world of things: society generally throughout the 18th and 19th century believed this. One had to be a good acquisitor. Mill disagreed with locke; more to the story of being an individual: new ideas would be heightened without worrying about finances. Essay is very critical of society and the very social rules society depends on for its success and domination.
