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LECTURE 6

John Stuart Mill

From the stern Kant, we move to a practical utilitarian,
nutty, Englishman who practiced eccentricity and thought
that individual liberty wa supreme and that the less
the government interfered the better. James Mill, father
of John Stuart was a bright Scot at the University of
Edinburgh, who had difficulty in his early married years,
developing an intellectual interest with his wife.
Shortly after they had their first son, John Stuart in
1806, he hooked up with a 60 year old learned, rich,
and eccentric English legal and moral writer by the name
of Jeremy Bentham. Bentham was writing and thinking
a lot about humane reforms, prison reforms. He designed the
prison, and gave it a name, Panopticon. This was a very
strange and interesting man, Bentham. But also a very
bright one. This prison, shaped like a wagon wheel, would
have provided air, libraries, exercise areas for
prisoners in the most effiecient manner. Part
of Bentham's theory was that the purpose of prison was
reform, not vengeance. He had a lot of other ideas
that are familiar to us. Utility in ethics, he thought
that this idea of the greatest happiness for the greatest
number of people ought to be the driving force behind
their actions. He was very mythological methodical?. He broke down
this happiness into seven categories by wha he called

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