Mill (In Our Time)
1859 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great nineteenth century political philosopher John Stuart Mill. He believed that, 'The true philosophy is the marriage of poetry and logic'. He was one of the first thinkers to argue that a social theory must engage with ideas of culture and the internal life. He used Wordsworth to inform his social theory, he was a proto feminist and his treatise On Liberty is one of the sacred texts of liberalism.
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Around 1859
- Crimean War (1853)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)