John Stuart Mill (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
A persistently controversial intellectual leader, John Stuart Mill sought to develop the utilitarian movement, founded by Jeremy Bentham and promoted by Mill’s father James, into a force for humanitarianism. Though early readers took his Autobiography, a vital introduction to Mill’s life and thought, as factual, scholars have more recently recognized its fictional construction as a tripartite paradigm of both Hegelian thesis-antithesis-synthesis and a Dantean quest from Hell through Purgatory to Paradise.
Born the first of nine children to James and Harriet Burrow...
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