Question

) What impact did the work of Mills have on the behavioral and social sciences and/or on society as a whole?

Answer 1

John Stewart Mill is a British philosopher whose works came as the continuation of many other intellectuals. He worked on the concept of liberalism where he encouraged the individual rights with limited government interference. He is considered to be the most influential philosophers of the nineteenth century.

He built on the Utilitarianism ethical philosophy which was developed by Jeremy Bentham which suggests that any action in order to be considered as moral should maximize utility or benefit to more people and reduce harm to anyone or shouldn’t even cause harm.

He thus ended up with more individual liberty and less governmental influence. He proposed the freedom of speech, women’s right and advocated political democracy. All these had a very big impact on the society which made more reverberations among people thus fighting for what’s rightfully theirs. Today when we look at a democracy, more importance is given to individual freedom, women working in all the spheres and democracy has become the central point in most of the countries.