J.S. Mill

Essay Two: “Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century” 7

Essay Three: “Two Concepts of Liberty” 11

Essay Four: “Historical Inevitability” 16

ssay One: “John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life”.

In this essay Berlin focuses his attention upon one concrete figure, J. S. Mill. Berlin supposes that Mill is one of the greatest theorists of liberty that has ever lived. Mill believed that it is neither rational thought, nor domination over nature, but freedom to choose and to experiment which distinguishes men from the rest of nature. He regarded liberty as more precious than life itself, because life without freedom seems to him like a miserable dwarf-man’ s existence. Like Nietzsche, he often used the word “dwarf” in order to show the consequences of human suppression.

Berlin’s essay contains three parts: first comes Mill’s biography, because it seems that some of his ideas are turned against his father’s educational methods. The second part is dedicated to liberty and variety, the third - to such important topic as tolerance. Firstly, the story of John Stuart Mill’s extraordinary education. His father, James Mill, like his teacher Bentham and the Fr

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Approximate Word count = 8403
Approximate Pages = 34 (250 words per page double spaced)