By Charles Kanjama
When British lawmaker John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) penned his influential work, “On Liberty” (1859), he probably did not foresee how far the application of his philosophy would take the modern world. Mill was the son of a Scottish philosopher. He learnt Latin and Greek in his childhood, and obtained a broad classical education. However, the strongest philosophical influence in his life was from his father’s friend, Jeremy Bentham, a notable British philosopher and founder of utilitarian philosophy.