John Stuart Mill

Abstract

John Stuart Mill (1806–73) was the most influential Englishlanguage philosopher of the nineteenth century. He was a naturalist, autilitarian, and a liberal, whose work explores the consequences of athoroughgoing empiricist outlook. In doing so, he sought to combinethe best of eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinking with newlyemerging currents of nineteenth-century Romantic and historicalphilosophy. His most important works include System of Logic(1843), On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861) andAn Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy(1865).