La política filosófica de J.S. Mill

Abstract

This article focuses on the Considerations on Representative Government (1861), and the apparent abandonment that John Stuart Mill would take of his radicalism in this work. 
The Considerations is a remarkable work that challenges most treatises on politics and government by ignoring any foundational account of political society, even the utilitarian one. 
Considerations’ methodology focuses, surprisingly, in assessing the role of virtue in the lives of people and in the defense of the importance of “active character” idea. 
Finally, this paper analyses Millian positions in Considerations on a number of aspects of popular government: the secret ballot, the popular election and dismissal of judges, tyranny of majority, universal suffrage, and the possibility of regressive politics even within a context of representative government.