John Stuart Mill truly valued the Utilitarian belief structure, predominately; the dogma in quest of the maximum amount of good for the maximum amount of people. Among an assortment of political discourses; The Subjection of Women is an application of his belief in individualism and negative liberty. This pedagogic composition shows that a woman 's main role is to serve others and put her desires on hold. This concept of female gender roles is accepted as the cult of domesticity. Mill argues that such practice repressed women from attaining their complete potential and suggests that women should be provided with better political and legal rights as well as given more socioeconomic opportunities.
Mill’s essay discovers the foundation of social establishments which stress the
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For him, being free is being left alone by all other agents to do as he desires, free from external agents. However, having the sole autonomous opportunity to chose is not the same as making legitimate choices. The elimination of external obstacles is a negative liberty: it removes obstacles to the liberated act of the individual, but does not construct it. Freedom and the expression of the individual take place in the procedure of choosing and subsequently following one’s choices. Whereas our culture programs us in the joys of emancipation, it offers minute examples of the need of surrendering our freedoms in the name of developing the self. The contrast between Mill and Hegel is the social dimension of beings, wherein Hegel recognizes that the individual and his/her interests do not exist in vacuity.
There is an evident competition between liberalism and communism, for Marx, self-emancipation was straight and instant participation in the collective process of social revolution. Reasonably, the idea of freedom may be shared by both thinkers; the means taken in the quest of the end, however, are extensively conflicting (Smart,