Quiz: John Stuart Mill

When was John Stuart Mill born?

• 1806, London, England.
• 1762, Rammenau, Saxony, Germany.
• 1798, Montpellier, France.
• 1844, Röcken, Germany.

When did John Stuart Mill die?

• 1873, Avignon, France.
• 1900, Weimar, Germany, after eleven years of mental collapse.
• 1938, Freiburg, Germany.
• 1854, Ragaz, Switzerland.

What is John Stuart Mill known for?

• On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and The Subjection of Women, an early argument for women's equality.
• Intentionality, the phenomenological reduction, and the Logical Investigations of 1900.
• The leap of faith, the three stages of life, aesthetic, ethical, religious, and the attack on comfortable Christendom.
• The Communist Manifesto, written with Engels, and Capital, on surplus value and the laws of capitalist crisis.

Which school of thought was John Stuart Mill part of?

• Utilitarianism and liberalism.
• Existentialism, its Christian founder.
• Post Kantian pessimism, drawing on Indian thought.
• Marxism, historical materialism.

True or false: English thinker raised by his father as a reasoning machine who became liberalism's great defender.

• True
• False