Mill

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TETrust in Experience

  8 / 10
• SSSovereign Self

  8 / 10
• POPractical Orientation

  8 / 10
• UIUniversalist Impulse

  8 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• LockeFORGE

  Mind is a blank slate. Government rests on consent. Property comes from labor.

• Mary WollstonecraftFORGE

  Women's rights are human rights. Reason knows no gender. Education emancipates.

• Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)FORGE

  Moral sense — virtue as the harmony of feelings.

• VoltaireFORGE

  Crush the infamy. Defend free speech to the death. Cultivate your garden.

• Jeremy BenthamFORGE

  The greatest happiness of the greatest number — pleasure calculus made law.

• Henry SidgwickFORGE

  Methods of Ethics — utilitarianism, egoism, intuitionism scrupulously compared.

Concepts where Mill sits in the conversation. Each links to a primer.

• The trolley problem
  A runaway trolley will kill five people unless you pull a lever to divert it onto a track where it kills one. Do you pull?
• Utilitarianism
  The right action is the one that produces the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
• The meaning of life
  Not "what is the answer" but "what kind of question is this".
• Hedonism
  Pleasure is the only thing intrinsically good. Everything else is good only insofar as it leads there.

Side-by-side with other philosophers, dimension by dimension.

• Mill VS Jeremy Bentham
• Mill VS Mary Wollstonecraft
• Mill VS Kant
• Mill VS Marx

Short exercises in the same tradition as Mill's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• The Examen →

  Five-step Ignatian end-of-day review — what was given, what was missed, what to take into tomorrow.

• View from above →

  Mentally zoom out — your city, your country, the planet — and look back at your day.

• Memento mori →

  A short, deliberate confrontation with mortality. Clarifying.