Topic: Using your readings, the video clips, and a bit of your creativity, write an essay (3 pages minimum) that links a discussion of: John Stuart Mill’s view of women, The Mission Civilisatrice, and The racism of nineteenth-century imperialism
Order Description
I am required to write an essay (3 pages minimum) that links a discussion of:
John Stuart Mill’s view of women,
The Mission Civilisatrice, and
The racism of nineteenth-century imperialism.
We have YouTube video clips that include the following:
Classics: John Stuart Mill — Utilitarianism
Duration: (12:33)
Imperialism: Crash Course World History #35
Duration: (13:46)
Winner NHD 2011 “From Isolation to Empire: The Aftermath of the Spanish American War”
Duration: (10:00)
Jeremy Bentham’s Body – Trapped in a Meeting
Duration: (3:13)
What is Utilitarianism?
Duration: (8:19)
My textbook is “A History of Political Thought: Hobbes to the Present”.
Our required reading for this week was as follows:
Chapter 19: Utilitarianism: Jeremy Bentham and James and John Stuart Mill (Pp. 695 – 728)
Chapter 23: Empire and Imperialism (Pp. 843 – 878)