The Correspondence of John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte.

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Mary Pickering ◽  
Oscar Haac ◽  
Gillis J. Harp
Keyword(s):  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Auguste Comte

A ‘LESS THAN ENTHUSIASTIC’ FRIENDSHIP: JOHN MORLEY, GEORGE ELIOT, AND GEORGE HENRY LEWES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin A Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
Liberal Philosophy ◽  
Aesthetic Preferences

Abstract For roughly a decade, John Morley enjoyed a warm and deferential sociality with George Henry Lewes and George Eliot. The basis for their friendship was the positivist philosophy of Auguste Comte, which initially held great appeal to Morley, who had lost his religious faith while studying as an undergraduate at Balliol, Oxford. While Lewes and Eliot’s views on Comte were largely fixed by middle age, Morley, still in his twenties, was searching for a substitute belief system. As Morley began to embrace the liberal philosophy of (and form a friendship with) John Stuart Mill, who had declared himself to be an antagonist of Comte’s, Morley, Lewes, and Eliot increasingly held less in common. This lack of commonality gave Morley the critical distance to reassess the couple both personally and intellectually. Embracing a new philosophy and divergent aesthetic preferences, Morley developed an equivocal view of his friends, roughly two decades his senior. Utilizing letters, diary entries, published writings, and a previously untranslated document in French, this essay provides a complex portrait of an intergenerational friendship among three nineteenth-century intellectuals.

“The Church of Humanity”: New York's Worshipping Positivists

1991 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillis J. Harp
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Henry Adams ◽  
Harriet Martineau ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Church

The philosophy of Auguste Comte changed irrevocably the intellectual contours of nineteenth-century Europe. In the Anglo-American world, John Stuart Mill was profoundly influenced by Comte's magisterial Cours de philosophie positive (1830–1842) and Mill's work became an important conduit through which Americans such as John Fiske, Lester F. Ward and Henry Adams encountered positivism. Comte's controversial later work (especially the Systéme de politique positive [1851–1854]) was also significant, although Mill and others became harsh critics of the so-called ‘second system.’ English admirers of Comte's bizarre social and religious blueprint did include notables, however, such as Frederic Harrison, Harriet Martineau and novelist George Eliot1.

scholarly journals JOHN STUART MILL, VICTORIAN LIBERALISM, AND THE FAILURE OF CO-OPERATIVE PRODUCTION

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOCELYN PAUL BETTS
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Profit Sharing ◽  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Thomas Carlyle ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Valid Form

ABSTRACTJohn Stuart Mill's support for, and predictions of, co-operative production have been taken as a coherent wedding of liberal and socialist concerns, and as drawing together later nineteenth-century political economy and working-class radicalism. Despite its evident significance, the alliance of political economy and co-operative production was, however, highly conflicted, contested, and short-lived, in ways that help to shed light on the construction of knowledge of society in nineteenth-century Britain. Mill's vision should be seen as developed in contrast to the sociological and historical perspectives of Auguste Comte and Thomas Carlyle, as an attempt to hold together political economy as a valid form of knowledge with the hope of a new social stage in which commerce would be imbued with public spirit. This ideal thus involved debate about competing social futures and the tools of prediction, as well as entering debates within political economy where it was equally embattled. Even Mill's own economic logic tended more towards support of profit-sharing than co-operative production, and hopes for the latter became significantly less persuasive with the introduction of the concept of the entrepreneur into mainstream British economics during the 1870s and 1880s.

The Long Peace of the Nineteenth Century and the Birth of Sociology

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Joas ◽  
Wolfgang Knöbl
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Jeremy Bentham ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
Herbert Spencer ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
Liberal Thought

This chapter examines how the progressive optimism nourished by liberal doctrines gradually began to take hold and how sociology as a discipline took a particularly wide variety of institutional forms and featured very different theoretical and research programs. Toward the end of the eighteenth and during the first third of the nineteenth centuries, utilitarians such as Jeremy Bentham and later James and John Stuart Mill were already singing the praises of free trade and its peace-promoting effects. This laid the foundations for at least one strand of liberal thought in the nineteenth century, on which early “sociologists” such as Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer could then build. Despite the hegemonic status of liberal doctrines, other views were always present beneath the surface. This includes Marxism, which in many respects embraced the legacy of liberalism.

John Stuart Mill – Zeitgeist und Zeitgenossen

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Jörg Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Thomas Carlyle ◽  
Auguste Comte

Die Texte in diesem Band zeigen John Stuart Mills (1806- 1873) Einbindung in zeitgenössische Diskurse und reichen von ersten Veröffentlichungen bis hin zum Werk des Elder Statesman. Der autoritätskritische Impetus des »Einmischers« und »Aufwieglers« Mill zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch diese Texte, die sich mit Zeitgenossen wie Auguste Comte, Thomas Carlyle oder William Hamilton auseinandersetzen. Seine schärfste Kritik gilt jeder Form von Machtmissbrauch wie Tyrannei, Despotismus und Totalitarismus. Mill präsentiert sich aber nicht nur als ein vehementer Kritiker jeglicher Machtanmaßung und der Idee unabänderlicher Vorherbestimmung, sondern auch als fundierter Theoretiker der Transformation und als ein öffentlicher Intellektueller, der für seine Überzeugungen in einem offenen Wettstreit eintrat. Ottfried Höffe schrieb zum Erscheinen der 5. Bandes in der FAZ 2017: »Für alle Freunde eines aufgeklärten Liberalismus: Die neue Ausgabe der Ausgewählten Werke ist abgeschlossen.«

scholarly journals Auguste Comte y John Stuart Mill. Distancias epistemológicas

Acheronta ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Lucas Kruzolek
Keyword(s):  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
Siglo Xix

<p>En el utilitarismo inglés de John Stuart Mill y en el positivismo de Auguste Comte pueden encontrarse, en líneas generales, dos de las posiciones filosóficas más cercanas del siglo XIX. El ánimo científico y la ilusión de un progreso social de la mano del desarrollo de las ciencias atraviesan y animan desde el interior la totalidad de sus proyectos. Sin embargo, al interior de sus posiciones epistemológicas persisten distancias insalvables. Lógico uno y matemático el otro, el eje medular de sus diferencias será la determinación del lugar de sus disciplinas nativas en relación al sistema jerárquico de las ciencias. El solapamiento conflictivo entre instrumentos lógicos y matemáticos a la hora de configurar un método científico hace eco, a su vez, de desencuentros más profundos que conectan sus posiciones a la historia más general de las discusiones y de los solapamientos conflictivos de tradiciones epistemológicas enteras.</p><p> </p>

scholarly journals Elements of positivism in the Ukrainian philosophy and culture of the second half of the 19th century

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 269-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vyacheslav Artyukh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
The 19Th Century

This article addresses the appropriation of positivist thought by Ukrainian intellectuals in the second half of the nineteenth century, in particular in the field of philosophy of history. By discussing elements of positivist thought in the works of Mykhailo Drahomanov, Ivan Franko and Pantaleimon Kulish, the author argues that all three were under direct influence of positivist thought, but none of them was a blind adherent of positivism. Positivism particularly influenced their thinking about history and the issue of determinism. Importantly, it was not the French positivism of Auguste Comte whose ideas were adopted, but rather the English positivism of Henry Thomas Buckle and John Stuart Mill.

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