SOAN 2112 Chapter : Taylor and Mill
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Harriet taylor (1807-1858) and john stuart mill (1806-1873) harriet wanted to become a great writer like martineau, seeked mills assistance. mill: modern education was about cramming ready-made truths into the heads of the multitude, with no likelihood of producing mental giants and creative geniuses. harriet: tyranny of the majority dangers of social conformity. harriet: opposed paternalism in the relation between the rich and poor, treated like children, need to be. Their missions: emancipation of women, and liberty for all made rational beings, government should be enabling them to work with or for one another. mill: injustices influcted by society on its weaker members: corporal punishment, punishment of children, wife-murder. a system theory argues that people were shaped by external conditions but also influenced them. human beings can mould and shape the circumstance sfor themselves and for those who come after them.