The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

<p>John Stuart Mill's Autobiography is an honest account of the education of this great thinker of the nineteenth century. It is an amazing account of an extraordinary life. John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was the most influential English language philosopher of the nineteenth century. He was a naturalist, a utilitarian, and a liberal, whose work explores the consequences of a thoroughgoing empiricist outlook. In doing so, he sought to combine the best of eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinking with newly emerging currents of nineteenth-century Romantic and historical philosophy. Mill's conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control. A member of the Liberal Party, he was the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.</p>