Publisher's Synopsis
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-John Stuart Mill is a clear example of what Lytton Strachey calls himself "eminent Victorians", that is, of those types of people who in the 19th century combined a strong individualism with the no less profound conviction that being part of of a cultural elite not only did not grant them rights but was a source of obligations and social burdens. He was born in London on May 20, 1806 and was the eldest in a family of nine brothers. His father, James Mill, can be considered a precursor to utilitarianism. Scottish in origin, he was an economist, philosopher, and disciple of Bentham, and Ricardo worked for the East India Company, whose history he wrote. Like his friend Bentham, and following the enlightened Helvetius, he was persuaded that education can do anything in character formation.He set out to demonstrate it with his son, whom he turned into a kind of "reasoning machine", imposing heinous discipline on him. The little boy learned Greek at the age of three and with eight he had read at least excerpts from Herodotus, Xenophon and Plato, with whom he maintained a fruitful dialogue in all his work although he continues to confess that he did not understand the Theaetetus the first time his father He gave it to him to read.
