ABSTRACT
This chapter presents that the claim that John Stuart Mill reverted to his utilitarian predecessors' method of treating political phenomena ignores the nuances of Mill's discussion of deductive reasoning as applied in practical affairs. It chapter shows that to the difference between science and art, that is, theoretical and practical knowledge, as applied to ethics and politics; to the method that is appropriate to each domain of knowledge; to Mill's analysis and criticism of traditional methodological approaches to politics; to Mill's delineation of the proper method of studying social phenomena; and, to Mill's method as applied in his Representative Government. In attempting to develop a 'philosophy of government' in Representative Government, Mill sought out and defined the "middle principles" between specific experience and psychological and ethological laws that ground the theorems his method produces-the key move was defining the criteria of good government in the educative and administrative functions of government.
