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.
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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