View allAll Photos Tagged JohnStuartMill
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - John Stuart Mill
"A gonosz diadalához csak annyi kell, hogy a jók tétlenek maradjanak." - John Stuart Mill
Left to right:
Frederick Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford (25 April 1794 - 5 October 1878), a renowned jurist and conservative politician who twice served as Lord Chancellor. (CDV by The London Steteoscopic and Photographic Company, 110 Regent Street, London.)
Leon Gambetta (2 April 1838 - 31 December 1882) was a French statesman prominent during and after the Franco-Prussian War. (CDV by A. Liebert, 81 Rue St. Lazare, Paris, France)
Lucius Manilus Sargent (25 June 1785 - 2 June ‘867) was an American author, antiquarian, and temperance advocate. (CDV by Silsbee, Case, & Co., Daguerreotype Artists, 299 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts)
William Henry Milburn (26 September 1823 - 11 April 1903) was a famous Methodist clergyman, who served as Chaplain to the U.S. House of Representative and the U.S. Senate. As the result of an accident, he lost the sight in one of his eyes at age 15, and then by his forties had lost sight in his remaining eye. He was married and had four children, all of whom died young. (Cabinet Card with no photographer information.)
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant. He has been called "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century”. (From Wikipedia) (Cabinet Card by London Stereoscopic Company, 54 Cheapside, E.C., England)
Miniature oil portrait of Harriet Taylor (nee Hardy), 1807-1858. Wife of John Stuart Mill and an important influence on his works, especially those on women's rights.
IMAGELIBRARY/1350
The two most important things a person can share: time and knowledge.
Interesting historical note: this watch is a type called a marriage watch. Marriage watches were the first wristwatches, and got their name from the "marriage" of a pocket watch to a wrist strap.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), philosopher, economist and advocate of women's rights; husband of Harriet Taylor.
IMAGELIBRARY/1353
An 1865 CDV by London photographer John Watkins of philosopher, economist, and parliamentarian John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873). According to Mill in an 1867 letter, this was the only photographic portrait session for which he ever sat:
'Want of time, combined with dislike for the operation, has obliged me to refuse all proposals from photographers to take my likeness, except in one instance, when I sat to Mr Watkins of Parliament Street, from whom any one who wishes for a photograph of me can obtain one.'*
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Watkins_(photographer)
*From: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XVI - The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849-1873 Part III, ed. Francis E. Mineka and Dwight N. Lindley (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972).
L'unica libertà che merita questo nome è quella di perseguire a modo nostro il nostro bene, sempre che non cerchiamo di privare gli altri del loro, o di intralciare i loro sforzi per raggiungerlo. Se gli uomini lasciano che ognuno viva come a lui sembra meglio, hanno da guadagnare molto di più che se costringono ogni individuo a vivere come sembra meglio agli altri.
(John Stuart Mill)
I have always had a fascination with traditional Vanitas still life paintings. This is an area I wish to improve at.
lighting: a gridded soft box high and to camera left, a grided speed light to camera's right
The Pope checking to see if she’s been named on the back cover of the “Death” issue of Lapham’s Quarterly…
The State of the Jews: A Critical Appraisal
By: Edward Alexander
“One reads this book with moral and aesthetic admiration. Its frightening message is that the so-called ‘new antisemitism’ is really the old antisemitism in a new disguise. It ...is a page-turner." —Abigail L. Rosenthal, professor of philosophy emerita, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, author of A Good Look at Evil and Conversions: A Philosophic Memoir
Book Description:
The State of the Jews examines the current predicament of the Jewish people and the land of Israel, both of which still stand at the storm center of history, because Jews can never take the right to live as a natural right.
The volume comprises celebrations and attacks. Edward Alexander celebrates writers like Abba Kovner, Cynthia Ozick, Ruth Wisse, and Hillel Halkin, who recognized in the foundation of Israel shortly after the destruction of European Jewry one of the few redeeming events in a century of blood and shame. He attacks Israel’s external enemies—busy planners of boycotts, brazen advocates of politicide, professorial apologists for suicide bombing—and also its internal enemies. These are "anti-Zionist" Jews, devotees of lost causes willfully blind to the fact that Israel’s creation was an event of biblical magnitude. Indifference to Jewish survival during World War II was the admitted moral failure of earlier American-Jewish intellectuals, but today’s "progressives" and "New Diasporists" call indifference virtue, and mistake cowardice for courage.
Because the new anti-Semitism, tightening the noose around Israel’s throat, emanates mainly from liberals, Alexander analyzes both antisemitic and philosemitic strains in three prominent Victorian liberals: Thomas Arnold, his son Matthew, and John Stuart Mill. The main body of Alexander’s book is divided generically into history, politics, and literature. At a deeper level, its chapters are integrated by the book’s pervasive concern: the interconnectedness between the state of Israel and the spiritual state of contemporary Jewry.
ISBN: 978-1-4128-4614-1
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), British philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was an exponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham.
On Liberty:
“ The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right...The only part of the conduct of anyone, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. ”
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher (1806-1875)
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself"
Kensington Square was laid out in 1685 and still has a few of its early-18th century houses. The square became an important artistic haunt in the 19th century, attracting such artists as Edward Burne-Jones, the Pre-Raphaelite painter and illustrator, who lived at No. 41; the novelist William Makepeace
Thackery, who lived at No. 16 and John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873) was a philosopher and civil servant.
Patrick Baty of Papers and Paints was asked to offer advice on the selection of paints and colours that might be appropriate.
"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative".
For my own part I have, through life, found office duties an actual rest from the other mental occupations which I have carried on simultaneously with them.
John Stuart Mill
Blogged in Palimpsest, How to Live by the Pen
I hunkered down every night in the library for four weeks to write my last essay. It was about whether J. S. Mill, for his utilitarianism, can be criticised as an advocate of individualism.
Congress of Industrial Organizations poster, c. 1955. Included with discussion materials on "Civil Liberties and Fair Employment Practices."
A quote from John Stuart Mill in a newsletter from Houston Chronicle columnist Chris Tomlinson. Still true today. Oct. 2023
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
— John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) On Liberty, chapter 2 (1859)
Image: [Any excuse to harrass opponents into silence] Mug shot of Emma Goldman, after being falsely implicated in the McKinley assassination (September 10, 1901)
This North Eastern Life: Quote of the Day for 2016-05-21
#opinion #publicopinion #silence #contrarian #JohnStuartMill #OnLiberty #quoteoftheday
John Stuart Mill, statue, Temple Gardens, Temple Place, Temple, Westminster, 1991, 91-4f-25
Bronze statue of John Stuart Mill, sitting in a chair by Thomas Woolner, erected in Temple Gardens in 1878.
Fantastic to see Mel and Martin again.
Good luck with Joseph tomorrow Martin.
Oh yes, and I remembered, it was Leicester Housing.
Remembering Victorian Women Presentation by Prof. Lydia Murdoch; Photo: James Russiello
The Victorian Society New York celebrated Women's History Month with a presentation on "Remembering Victorian Women," a presentation at the English Speaking Union by Lydia Murdoch, Professor of History and Director of The Victorian Studies Program at Vassar College at Poughkeepsie, New York. The presentation was on "From imaginings of the “Angel in the House” to falsely attributed accounts of the Queen’s advice to “lie back and think of England,” popular representations of Victorian women tend to fall into overly simplified gender distinctions. Current society perceives Victorian women as corseted and caged in crinolines, protected from the worlds of politics, business and war within their domestic sphere. By exploring the lives of three Victorian women—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Hannah Cullwick and Mary Seacole." Lydia Murdoch, Professor of History and Director of Victorian Studies at #VassarCollege, and author of Daily Life of Victorian Women (2014) and Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London (2006), will unravel the myths and contradictions of Victorian femininity. www.flickr.com/photos/victorianny/albums/72157682027676401