... methodology of Classical Liberals such as John Stuart Mill and his followers. That methodology recognized the messiness of policy compared to the elegance of the theory underlying science. To deal with that messiness, the policy methodology needed a branch of economics that was free of scientific certainty...

... dealt with inequality and oppressive power, focusing on the initial defense advanced for the low wages of the laborer in comparison with the revenues of the employer and landlord. It also discusses the defense from Utilitarianism, led by Jeremy Bentham, and the views of John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer...

... of liberal imperialism, one relating to the East India Company and the other to World War II, and one nineteenth-century text: John Stuart Mill's essay On Liberty. It also examines the consequentialist-liberalism defense of intervention and how it overlaps with arguments for intervention...

...This chapter examines some differences between rights-based and utilitarian defenses of democracy by referencing to John Stuart Mill and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Since the early 1960s, Mill and Rousseau have been regarded as theorists of “participatory democracy,” defenders of a classical ideal...

...This chapter examines some unanswered questions in John Stuart Mill's politics, especially with regards to bureaucracy, democracy, and liberty. These questions relate to what Mill thought about the bearing of the way India was governed on the way the United Kingdom should be governed; about...

... at the point at which a utilitarian's liberal intuitions come into conflict with the demands of the general welfare; but the rights that these intuitions seem to presuppose are not property rights. The chapter also considers John Stuart Mill's claim that all property is the creature of the law with his defense...

... with political meritocracy at the level of the central government and democracy at the local level. It argues that the third model is the best of the three and goes on to consider John Stuart Mill's proposal for a plural voting scheme, Jiang Qing's proposal for a tricameral legislature, and Chinese Minister Li...

...This chapter describes John Stuart Mill's attempt to redefine sensory experience as a way to reimagine the social order posited by the utilitarianism of both his father, James Mill, and Jeremy Bentham. While James Mill describes pain as profoundly personal, interiorized, and private, in his...

... realization. This notion of property rights extends back at least to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The chapter first considers the high liberalist views on property and equality, focusing on the arguments advanced by Rousseau, Karl Marx, and John Stuart Mill, before discussing the rise of social justice...

...This book presents biographical/philosophical sketches of the founders of classical utilitarianism such as William Godwin, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick. The great irony of the legacy of utilitarianism is that its name has long been an obstacle to its message, an irony...

...This book has explored some of the doubts and possibilities for different readings of the classical utilitarians, both positive and negative. It has shown how William Godwin, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, and others were forever engaged in tackling both the reasons...

...This chapter addresses John Stuart Mill's inconsistency, illogic, and incoherence for his unquestioned brilliance and profound influence. It reconstructs Mill's practical philosophy, which includes his theory of happiness, morality, liberty, and freedom. It also cites Mill's 1861 essay...

...This chapter discusses John Stuart Mill's moral theory on what people are obliged to do or refrain from doing and what moral meaning and weight should people accord to utility, rules, and justice. It shows how the entirety of Mill's Utilitarianism is devoted to proving...

...This chapter discusses John Stuart Mill's liberal theory, confirming what principle ought to govern the relationship between the individual and society and when it is permissible for society to interfere with the individual. It explicates the general value Mill places on what is known as liberty...

...This chapter talks about John Stuart Mill's republican theory, analyzing what principle ought to direct or frame the relationship between individuals and the sociopolitical institutions that govern them. It distinguishes between the libertarian and republican concepts of freedom, considering...

...Few thinkers have been as influential as John Stuart Mill, whose philosophy has arguably defined Utilitarian ethics and modern liberalism. But fewer still have been subject to as much criticism for perceived ambiguities and inconsistencies. This book offers an ambitious and comprehensive new...

..., Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, and John Stuart Mill's Autobiography, it suggests that the ethical foundations of the concept of Bildung—and in particular the idea of sensus communis (common sense)—made form...

... in the writings of Charles Lamb, John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Walter Pater. The book shows how their essays offer grounds for a claim about the relationship among art, education, and human freedom—an “aesthetic liberalism”—not encompassed by traditional political philosophy or in literary...

...This chapter discusses John Stuart Mill's value theory, addressing what is intrinsically valuable or desirable and what does he mean by happiness or the good life. It assesses Mill's so-called doctrine of the higher pleasures and argues that he successfully combines the hedonistic and qualitative...

... and during the first third of the nineteenth centuries, utilitarians such as Jeremy Bentham and later James and John Stuart Mill were already singing the praises of free trade and its peace-promoting effects. This laid the foundations for at least one strand of liberal thought in the nineteenth century...