Essay on John Stuart Mill’s Education

Mann was educated in a one room school house that was often in need of repair because it lacked the funding necessary for physical maintenance in which led to less funding for academic resources. Schooling in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was often irregularly managed and unorganized. However, Mann was not only intelligent but he was a determined individual who focused to teach himself the content and skills needed to pursue higher education. It was this impoverished background that would serve as a framework for Mann’s work and beliefs. It would be his own experiences during his upbringing that would fuel and motivate his dedication to improve public

The devastation of losing a parent at a young age can cause long-term effects that last into adulthood. When Hawthorne was four, his father died of yellow fever and this caused problems for him. His mother became very overly protective and pushed him toward isolated pursuits (Biography). His childhood left him shy and bookish, which molded his life as a writer. He also was not a very social person, had few close friends, and had little engagement with others (Biography). If Hawthorne’s life had not started the way it did, he would have never been the person he was as an adult, and society would have never been able to see the writing he could create. Nathaniel

Mill lived in an era when women were seen as a lower class than men by law and custom. They were expected to do nothing more but to marry, bear children, and give up much of their time to their families. In most cases they could not pursue a formal education, own property, vote, or even seek a divorce from an abusive husband. Women lived by having to follow the rules of their “masters,” their husbands.

John Stuart Mill and Aristotle both address the idea of happiness as the goal of human life. They explain that all human action is at the foundation of their moral theories. Mill addresses the Greatest Happiness Principle, which is the greatest amount of pleasure to the least amount of pain. Similarly, Aristotle addresses happiness through the idea of eudaimonia and human flourishing. According to Aristotle, eudaimonia is happiness, it is the state of contemplation that individuals are in when they have reached actualized happiness. Also referred to as happiness or human flourishing, it is the ultimate goal of human beings. Happiness is “living well and acting well.” He explains that once general happiness becomes recognized as the moral standard, natural sentiment will nurture feelings that promote utilitarianism. According to Aristotle, happiness is a state of being. Both Mill and Aristotle agree that in order to attain true happiness, human beings must engage in activities that are distinct to humans and that make them happy. Aristotle’s idea of eudaimonia and human flourishing is a more compelling argument than Mill’s for happiness and the final end because Aristotle explains that the virtues bring human beings to happiness.

Mills states, “Thomas Jefferson, by consensus I think our favorite founding father, would have approved.” Mills believes that taking charge of education for one’s own child is a liberty that is one of the few things that America fought for and continues to fight for the suppression of oppression of any kind, "Educating your own children is an act of the kind of freedom I was taught our country provided, a freedom of self-determination thatis one of its great glories." (Mills 344) Mills divulges that when he was going to school, one of his teachers taught him about Herbert Marcuse and Marcuse’s idea of “repressive tolerance” and that “we are not free even though we seemed to be, and in fact that the system itself controlled us through what we thought were free choices.” (Mills 342) At whatever age Mills heard this quote, we know it must have stuck with him since he has kept that idea in his head. Mills recalls Edmund Burke’s theory of “little platoons” for ideas thought to be from anarchy. Mills and other people like him had different ideas of how to go about life, he tells us: “We had a vision of social difference and diversity, which we were taught was threatened by the homogenizing effects of late industrial capitalism, symbolized even then by white bread and processed cheese.” So Mills knew he was in unpopular opinion that tended to upset the balance of what others

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In John Stuart Mill’s profound work On Liberty, he preaches against the conformity of the nations and outwardly encourages and restlessly defends voice of the individual. The philosopher expresses the importance of individuality by warning against forces such as the government and other citizens silencing their opinion. Though Mill gives due recognition to virtues such as free speech, liberty, and individualism, he also rightly places limitations on our freedoms to ensure that they do not infringe upon the ones of those around us. In essence, I believe that Mill’s insightfully provides a logical answer to society on how to live and how to allow others to live; freely unless harm will ensue. By Mill 's statement that, “[i]f all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind” one can gain insights into the assumptions his argument is grounded upon, his justification for these assumptions, the limitations that should rightly be placed on free speech, and my overall opinion on Mill’s argument on free speech.

According to society, it is displayed that when people are with their family and friends, they are exceeding 31% more in school. This reveals that happiness helps kids to improve in school. In the article, an autobiography, by John Stuart Mill(1909), claims that happiness is focused on too much, and that people are displaying the wrong activities to find it. John Stuart Mill supports the thesis by using his opinion, that the reader could relate to. The author wants to catch the reader’s attention, in order to push them focus on how they are finding happiness. Nevertheless, John Stuart Mill wants the reader to relate to his opinion. For example, when people are kind or help out a friend and always “ask yourself [if] your happy, and if you cease

Lucius Beebe critically analyzes Edwin Arlington Robinson’s, The Mill best. Beebe’s analysis is from an objective point of view. He points out to the reader that what seems so obvious may not be. She notes “The Mill is just a sad little tale of double suicide brought on by the encroachment of the modern world and by personal loss.” Thus meaning The Mill carries a deeper underlying theme. Lucius Beebe expresses that a minor overflow of significant details has been exposed over Edwin Arlington Robinson's "The Mill," much of it concerned with whether the miller's wife did indeed drown herself after the miller had hanged himself. Another, even more provocative question has never been asked: did the

The role of pleasure in morality has been examined thoroughly throughout the beginning of philosophy and continues to be a questionable issue. With these in-depth examinations, some similar outlooks as well as differing views have been recorded. Many philosophers have dissected this important topic, however I intend to concentrate of the famous works of Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill. After meticulously analyzing each of the above philosophers’ texts, I personally prefer the position of utilitarian and Benthamite, John Stuart Mill. After comparing and contrasting the positions and reasonings of these philosophers, I will demonstrate my own reasons why I have chosen John Stuart Mill as the most established in his theory of the role of pleasure in morality.

When it came to culture changes, it was something that people decided to take on their own hands. There was a

In this hypothetical, two options are given. A person may choose from being reincarnated as Haydn, a famous musical composer, for 77 years. Or one may live as an Oyster, and decide for themselves however long they want to live. An oyster would experience unlimited years of a feeling that is near that of floating drunk in a bathtub. As Haydn, a person would experience the highs and the lows of life. Haydn composed many symphonies, and was a celebrity in his day as a musical composer. With being famous and influential, comes low times and struggles as well. The decision is between a painless life of small satisfaction, or a mix between extreme satisfaction and extreme lows. Two well-known philosophers have very different thought processes, when it comes to this thought experiment. Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill are their names. I side with John Stuart Mill’s qualitative hedonism. I believe that his theory is more plausible. I believe this because in my life I have encountered the joy of higher pleasure and am certain it is much better than that of a lower pleasure.

Composed by four distinct chapters, “The Subjection of Women”, offers its readers with precise arguments demonstrating Mill’s liberal feminism and his commitment to gender equality. In the first chapter of his essay, John Stuart Mills challenges the common notion that women are by nature unequal to men. He argues that “… From the dawn of human society, every woman was in a state of bondage to some man, because she was of value to him and she had less muscular strength than he did…” alluding to the idea that women have always been conceived to be physically and mentally less capable than men, and therefore needed to be taken care of by the stronger gender. As a result of these primitive

John Locke (1632-1704) and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) are two important thinkers of liberty in modern political thought. They have revolutionized the idea of human freedom at their time and have influenced many political thinkers afterwards. Although their important book on human freedom, John Locke’s The Second Treatise of Government (1689) and John Mill’s On Liberty (1859), are separated 170 years, some scholars thinks that they are belonging to the same conceptual tradition, English Liberalism. In this essay, I will elaborate John Locke and John Stuart Mill view on human freedom and try to find the difference between their concept of human freedom despite their similar liberal tradition background.

Philosopher John Stuart Mill concocted an arrangement of five watchful strategies by methods for which to break down and decipher our perceptions with the end goal of making determinations about the causal connections they show. So as to perceive how each of the five methods functions, we should consider their down to earth application to a particular circumstance. Assume that on a generally uneventful evening, a Nurse at a childcare wind up noticeably mindful that an abnormal number of kids are experiencing severe indigestion. Ms. Navarro normally speculates that this manifestation comes about because of something the kids had for lunch, and she might want to discover without a doubt. The Nurse needs to discover evidence that will bolster a conclusion that "Eating? xxxx? causes indigestion." Mill's Methods can offer assistance.