Blog 15- John Stuart Mill

According to the biography, Mill was a radical advocate. He was helping get sexual equality, he right to divorce, universal suffrage, free speech, and proportional representation. He founded the Utilitarian Society to get some sort of revenge at his father for making him grow up with an absence of love and in the presence of fear. Mill had made changes to legislation in his run in Parliament, a century ahead of American Lawyers, he got the legislation to be change to nonsexist terms.

Mill wrote books and essays about his thoughts and ideas. In On Liberty, he talked of "liberty of the press". Mill wanted to make it free to talk or write what you pleased. He thought that it was fine to state your opinion or keep it to yourself. He also thought that if you were to force someone to not give their opinion, then you were not telling the full truth. In Chapter 3 of On Liberty, Mill was advocating individuality. He was trying to get people to be more unique and free to do what they pleased. He said that there were two requisites to being an individual: "freedom and a variety of situations" and those make "individual vigour and manifest diversity." We have definitely achieved diversity and originality in present time. Maybe we have gotten past just standing out and now we have moved onto being crazily different from others.

He also wrote The Subjection of Women, and in that he was volleying for equal rights. "the present system, which entirely subordinates the weaker sex to the stronger, rests upon theory only; for there never has been trial made of any other" If things had started out with the women being in place of the men and the men being the weaker sex, people would start trying to get men to be equal to women. We technically do not know if women could be the stronger sex because it hasn't been tried.