John Stuart Mill
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Readings

Weekly Microcommentary Assignments:

  1. Aug. 29: Utilitarianism 4:4-6 (i.e., chapter 4, paragraphs 4-6, starting from "But it has not..." to "even in intensity..."; on pp. 169-171 in the Gray edition).
  2. Sept. 5: Analysis, ch. 3, sec. 8 (pp. 90-93).
  3. Sept. 12: System of Logic, Book II, ch. iii, sec. 2 (pp. 184-185).
  4. Sept. 19: System of Logic, para. bridging pp. 307-308.
  5. Sept. 26: System of Logic, 374-376 (the para. starting, "Again, laws which..."). (There's no class on this date, but you can turn in your microcommentaries normally.)
  6. Oct. 3: "Auguste Comte and Positivism," X:304, from line 17 ("The Sovereignty of the People...") to ten lines from the bottom of the page ("...which those ends impose").
  7. Oct. 10: System of Logic, p. 256, para. starting, "This, however, though it looks so plausible..."
  8. Oct. 17: BONUS MICROCOMMENTARY. Analysis,vol. ii, first para. of note 58 on pp. 307-309.
  9. Oct. 24: Autobiography, 3:3 (i.e., para. starting on p. 67, "My previous education had been...")
  10. Oct. 31: Autobiography, 5:10 (i.e., para. starting on p. 121, "In the first place...")
  11. Nov. 7: Autobiography, A 5:6 (para. bridging pp. 117-118, starting "The experiences of this period...").
  12. Nov. 14: Subjection, 4:4 ("To which let me first answer...").
  13. Nov. 21: System, vol. VII, from p. 277 ("As I have hitherto said nothing...") to 278, top ("...from all these facts").
  14. Nov. 28: On Liberty, 3:12 (para. bridging pp. 72-73, "I insist thus emphatically...").
  15. Dec. 5: RG 2:20, 26 (para. bridging pp. 228-229, p. 231, para. starting "It is otherwise...").
  16. Dec. 12: "Whewell on Moral Philosophy," para. bridging pp. 193-194 ("Of this hybrid character..." to "...in defence of the absurdest superstitions").