John Stuart Mill 1806-1873

Autobiography 1873

Utilitarianism

Romanticism

James Mill

System of Logic 1843

Principles of Political Economy 1848

On Liberty 1859

Liberty

Matthew Arnold

Culture and Anarchy 1869

Considerations on Representative Government 1861

Member of Parliament, 1865-1868

Stuart Mill, letter to the Conservative MP, Sir John Pakington (March, 1866):

"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it. "

Socialism

Cooperative Ownership

Labor Theory of Value

Separate Spheres

 

Harriet Taylor 1807-1858

"The Enfranchisement of Women" Westminster Review1851

Helen Taylor

1867 Reform Bill

The Subjection of Women 1869.

 

What are some of the reasons why John Stuart Mill had such great influence in the nineteenth century?

Contrast his ideas on the relationship between men and women with those of Darwin.