4 ideas from John Stuart Mill, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.
You can never observe another person's consciousness, only their behavior and a body like yours. John Stuart Mill argued this licenses an analogy: since others act as you do in sim…
— John Stuart Mill, An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy
In On Liberty (1859), Mill argues the only legitimate reason society may coerce an individual against their will is to prevent harm to others, never for their own good or to enforc…
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Bentham had reduced morality to counting units of pleasure, treating all pleasures as equal. Mill pushed back: intellectual and moral pleasures are qualitatively higher than bodily…
— John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
In On Liberty, John Stuart Mill argued the only justification for a society to exercise power over an individual against their will is to prevent harm to others — not to make them …
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty