Philosophic Radicals

Further reading

Hamburger, Joseph (1965) Intellectuals in Politics: John Stuart Mill and the Philosophic Radicals, New Haven: Yale University Press.

Pringle-Pattison, A. Seth (1907) The Philosophical Radicals and Other Essays, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and sons.

Rosen, Frederick (2011) From Jeremy Bentham’s radical philosophy to J. S. Mill’s philosophic radicalism, in Gareth Stedman Jones & Gregory Claeys (eds.) The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 257–294.

Rosen, Frederick (2013) Philosophic radicalism, in James E. Crimmins (ed.) The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 410–412.

Thomas, William (1979) The Philosophic Radicals: Nine Studies in Theory and Practice, 1817-1841, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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communities adjacent to effective altruism | Jeremy Bentham | John Stuart Mill | utilitarianism

The Philosophic Radicals (sometimes called the Philosophical Radicals) were a group of followers of Jeremy Bentham, led by John Stuart Mill, politically active in England during the first half of the nineteenth century.