F 26 - Final report blog post (final draft) due. Remember to include links to at least two classmates' final reports on which you've commented. And, if your report is a continuation of your midterm topic, include a link to it as well.
And: by link I don't just mean a list. Please link your text directly to the post(s) you commented on, so we can go to them in a click.
And: by link I don't just mean a list. Please link your text directly to the post(s) you commented on, so we can go to them in a click.
I'm not an author for this blog site so I decided to create my own. Hope that's cool; here's the like---->>> https://philosophyofdragonball.blogspot.com/2019/04/subliminal-philosophy-of-dragon-ball.html
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DeleteI am not an author either. here is my post until then.
ReplyDeleteJames Mill was born born April 6, 1773 in Scotland. Best known as a philosopher but he was also a well regarded historian, and economist. He received a top tier education at the parish school and then to the Montrose Academy. He then attended the University of Edinburgh where he became a distinguished scholar. In 1789 he was ordained as a minister of the church of Scotland. He did not fill this role for long, for many of his views contradicted natural religion. He left Scotland for London in in 1802, and committed himself to literary work.
In 1808 he met Jeremy Bentham. They would become great companions, and Mill adopted nearly all of Bentham’s ideas, and committed to spreading them to the rest of the world. Jame Mill was now devoted to Utilitarian philosophy, and philosophical radicalism. He believed actions should be based upon their consequences or results. He emphasized the need for a scientific basis for philosophy as well as a humanist approach to politics and economics.He defined happiness as an experience of pleasure which was generated by lack of suffering. In 1814 Mill began writing various articles on politics, law, and education for editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica. One of the articles articles on government caught a lot of attention in the 1820s. In it, Mill concluded that wide suffrage is a critical element of a representative democracy and a good government. “Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.” His work on this topic laid the foundations for a reform bill later passed by British Parliament in 1832 which expanded the electorate.
In 1819 Mill was appointed to the British Parliament of India. He slowly climbed the ranks during which he published History, one of his most significant literary achievements. Mill harshly criticized the British administration of India, “No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, secondly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.” He later rose to the head of the examiner’s office in 1830. After receiving this appointment his works switched to the purpose of defending the India house. In the London review he defended the parliament he now took pride in saying, “Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure. In 17 years with the India House he contributed to the complete reformation of the system of government He never ever actually took a trip to India.
Questions:
What caused Mill to change the way he wrote about Britain’s India parliament?
Who did Mill derive most of his philosophical ideas from?
What did Mill do before he became a writer? Why did this not work out?
What kind of philosophy did the majority of Mill’s ideas fall under?
Links:
What is Utilitarianism:
https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/wi-phi/wiphi-value-theory/wiphi-ethics/v/utilitarianism-part-1
History of Britain and India:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3jWafZ-K6A
I am not an author either. here is my post until then.
ReplyDeleteJames Mill was born born April 6, 1773 in Scotland. Best known as a philosopher but he was also a well regarded historian, and economist. He received a top tier education at the parish school and then to the Montrose Academy. He then attended the University of Edinburgh where he became a distinguished scholar. In 1789 he was ordained as a minister of the church of Scotland. He did not fill this role for long, for many of his views contradicted natural religion. He left Scotland for London in in 1802, and committed himself to literary work.
In 1808 he met Jeremy Bentham. They would become great companions, and Mill adopted nearly all of Bentham’s ideas, and committed to spreading them to the rest of the world. Jame Mill was now devoted to Utilitarian philosophy, and philosophical radicalism. He believed actions should be based upon their consequences or results. He emphasized the need for a scientific basis for philosophy as well as a humanist approach to politics and economics.He defined happiness as an experience of pleasure which was generated by lack of suffering. In 1814 Mill began writing various articles on politics, law, and education for editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica. One of the articles articles on government caught a lot of attention in the 1820s. In it, Mill concluded that wide suffrage is a critical element of a representative democracy and a good government. “Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.” His work on this topic laid the foundations for a reform bill later passed by British Parliament in 1832 which expanded the electorate.
In 1819 Mill was appointed to the British Parliament of India. He slowly climbed the ranks during which he published History, one of his most significant literary achievements. Mill harshly criticized the British administration of India, “No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, secondly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.” He later rose to the head of the examiner’s office in 1830. After receiving this appointment his works switched to the purpose of defending the India house. In the London review he defended the parliament he now took pride in saying, “Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure. In 17 years with the India House he contributed to the complete reformation of the system of government He never ever actually took a trip to India.
Questions:
What caused Mill to change the way he wrote about Britain’s India parliament?
Who did Mill derive most of his philosophical ideas from?
What did Mill do before he became a writer? Why did this not work out?
What kind of philosophy did the majority of Mill’s ideas fall under?
Links:
What is Utilitarianism:
https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/wi-phi/wiphi-value-theory/wiphi-ethics/v/utilitarianism-part-1
History of Britain and India:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3jWafZ-K6A
Here is my email to invite me to be an author. I wasn't able to include my pictures.
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