Showing posts with label J S Mill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label J S Mill. Show all posts
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Is ecological justice also a mirage?

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  David Schmidtz advocates “ecological justice” in his book, Living Together : Inventing Moral Science. Although Schmidtz does not refer to ...
Friday, December 9, 2022

How has the Neoplatonism of my youth influenced my current beliefs?

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  The kid in the photo believed that the material world is an illusion. Those beliefs about the nature of reality probably led him to be som...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

How did a trading company come to rule India?

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  Spencer went on to suggest that trade would have been more successful in the absence of the privileges that the British government had con...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

What will government look like after the fourth revolution?

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“Democracy in Australia is sinking into a self-destructive spiral. The sickness at its heart is the demise of individual responsibility and...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

Was J S Mill correct in his observation that happiness cannot be obtained by seeking it?

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John Stuart Mill is often quoted as an authority on the question of whether happiness can be obtained by seeking it. In Autobiography he...
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Is there no nook of English ground secure from rash assault?

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The question is from the first lines of a poem by William Wordsworth, written in 1841 in protest against plans for construction of the Kend...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Do 19th Century principles of political economy explain British policies towards the Irish during the great famine?

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This question has arisen from my reading of ‘ The Great Famine’, by Ciarán Ó Murchadha. But I have an interest in the question for two addi...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Is Enlightenment humanism a coherent world view?

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‘The reason so many violent institutions succumbed within so short a span of time was that the arguments that slew them belong to a cohere...
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