Background
MILL, James was born in 1773 in Forfar, Scotland.
economist historian philosopher
MILL, James was born in 1773 in Forfar, Scotland.
His mother resolved that he should receive a first-rate education, and sent him first to the parish school and then to the Montrose Academy, where he remained until the unusual age of seventeen and a half.
The disciple and promotor of Jeremy Bentham, he developed the economic side of utilitarian analysis and incorporated the ideas of Malthus and Ricardo. It was through James Mill that a group of followers of Bentham, the so-called ‘philosophical radicals’ was formed. His Elements.. is the first English-language textbook of economics.
Preacher, 1798-1802; Professional writer, 1802-1819. Officer, East India Company, 1819-1836.
"Lord Lauderdale on Public Wealth"
Commerce Defended
Thomas Smith on Money and Exchange
"Government"
Mill played a great part in British politics, and was, more than any other man, the founder of what was called "philosophic radicalism".His writings on government and his personal influence among the Liberal politicians of his time determined the change of view from the French Revolution theories of the rights of man and the absolute equality of men to the claiming of securities for good government through a wide extension of the franchise.
He carried out the principle of association into the analysis of the complex emotional states, as the affections, the aesthetic emotions and the moral sentiment, all which he endeavoured to resolve into pleasurable and painful sensations.
Whereas his son and Bentham were pioneering feminists, James Mill has been considered an antifeminist but also interpreted as positive to feminism.
