Silences that cause noise: Of how John Stuart Mill overcame the melancholic states of utilitarism
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John Stuart Mill based initially his notion of suicide on Hume’s theory and on Bentham’s moral arithmetic; nevertheless, he had a transforming experience in his youth, moment in which he longed for ending his life and which he overcame reading the English romanticism. This article describes Mill’s vision on the suicide, which he purposely silenced, through the notion of suicide of romanticism, of Hume and also of Adam Smith. Certainly, in the Theory of Moral Sentiments Smith was bold enough to criticize Hume’s famous defense of the suicide; in spite of the fact that the influence of The Wealth of the Nations in Mill has been widely studied, the possible influence of Smith’s moral theory in the overcoming of his mental crisis has been overlooked.
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/t.20.1.2518
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