The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill · Concept
Religion and Skepticism
Mill discusses his father's rejection of religious belief on moral grounds, and his own skeptical view of organized religion, arguing that true morality and progress require freeing thought from dogmatic superstition.
Mill discusses his father's rejection of religious belief on moral grounds, and his own skeptical view of organized religion, arguing that true morality and progress require freeing thought from dogmatic superstition.
Mill's father rejected religious belief on moral grounds, viewing it as a great moral evil, and this shaped Mill's own early irreligious upbringing.
Religion and Skepticism is one of the patterns The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill by John Stuart Mill returns to. The chapter notes above are from this edition’s companions — open those chapters to see how the book stages the idea rather than treating the theme as a slogan.