When and where was John Stuart Mill born?
John Stuart Mill was born on the 20th of May 1806 at 13 Rodney Street in Pentonville, London.
Questions about John Stuart Mill
Short answers, pulled from the story.
What subjects did John Stuart Mill study by age ten?
By ten years old, John Stuart Mill could read Plato and Demosthenes with ease after learning Greek at age three and reading Aesop's Fables, Xenophon's Anabasis, and all of Herodotus by age eight. He also studied Latin, Euclid, and algebra while teaching younger children in his family.
Why did John Stuart Mill experience a psychological breakdown at twenty years of age?
At twenty years of age, John Stuart Mill went through months of profound sadness because he questioned whether creating a just society would actually make him happy. His heart answered no, causing him to lose the happiness of striving toward this goal until poetry by William Wordsworth showed him that beauty generates compassion for others.
How much money did John Stuart Mill offer Thomas Carlyle as compensation for the destroyed manuscript?
Mortified when his housemaid used the manuscript as tinder in March 1835, John Stuart Mill offered Thomas Carlyle £200 as compensation though Carlyle accepted only £100.
Who influenced John Stuart Mill to reject Jeremy Bentham's view of human nature?
John Stuart Mill had been engaged in a pen-friendship with Auguste Comte since November 1841, and Comte's positivism motivated Mill to reject Bentham's cold view of human nature in favor of a sociable view focused on historical facts and human individuals.