Who is John Stuart Mill?John Stuart Mill was born on May 20, 1806 in London, England. He was known above all for his radical ideas. For example, he preached sexual equality, divorce, universal suffrage, free speech, and proportional representation. He had many works of writings such as Principles of Political Economy, On Freedom, The Subjections of Women and the three essays on religion: Nature, Utility of Religion and Theism. John Mill was the eldest son of James Mill who was a philosopher, economist and senior official of the East India Company. James tutored John when he was young. His father taught him discipline, Greek at the age of three, history, languages, calculus, logic, political economy, geography, psychology and rhetoric. By the age of twelve he was a competent logician and by the age of sixteen a well-trained economist. (http://www.utilitarism.com/jsmill.htm) His father believed that teaching children when they were young would have a lasting effect on them. The purpose of this educational push at a young age is because James thought that teaching John would have the possibility of him becoming a prophet of the utilitarian gospel. John eventually had to learn from his father and teach the same material to his eight younger brothers and sisters. Around the age of sixteen, John created a utilitarian society, which aimed to bring happiness to the greatest number of people, where he was part of a “small group of young men” who practiced his father's political and philosophical views. (http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/m/milljs.htm) At the age of twenty-one he suffered a nervous breakdown, resulting from the severe strain of his early years. In his autobiography, which was later published after his death, he wrote that he was in a “dull state of nerves”; and that it had lost its charm. He said he took “no pleasure in virtue, or in the general good, but equally little in anything else.” After several months he realized that his emotions had not dried up and “the cloud gradually cleared.” In 1823 John obtained a clerk's position in the examiner's office at the East India Company. He later eventually headed that department. Harriet Taylor, who was a close friend of John, wrote several works with him. They met in 1830 and she was the mother of t...... middle of paper......em. This is what he is trying to practice in treating women with respect and the same way men treat other men. She concludes the first chapter by stating: “But, in this case, everything that has been done in the modern world to connect that chain in the minds of women has been a mistake. They should never have been allowed to receive a literary education. Women who read, even more women who write, are, in the existing constitution of things, a contradiction and a disturbing element: and it was wrong to raise women with other qualities than those of an odalisque, or a maid. . (The Longman Anthology, page 527) In conclusion, he was best known for his radical views. Principles of political economy, On freedom, The subjections of women and The three essays on religion: Nature, Utility of religion and Theism, where they are just some of the many works he published to show the world that not everything is always perfect and intact. He proved that you can express your mind and that this is the new era of thinking. Her writings on women's rights to economics were well ahead of their time. It is true that today John Stuart Mill is not as well known as he should be.