On The Quality Of Citizens' Mill And Its Implications For China

As a kind of value and institutional arrangement,’Democracy’ has got the identity of most countries In the21st century, but this does not mean that democracy can solve all social problems when it is established. For example, In an early stage of democratization of the society, What qualities should Citizens have and how should they play their role to improve the quality of democracy and prevent the ’Democratic politics’change to’Mob politics’?John Stuart Mill,a mid-19th century’s famous British thinker,who lived in such environment. Facing the mass of democracy, on the one hand, Mill conform to the trend of The Times claims should extend the right to vote, let more people participate in the management of the whole country; on the other hand,Mill is also very concern about expanding the scope of democracy will affect the quality of the democracy, thus not conducive to the stable development of the society. So he tries to balance ’expand the scope of democracy’ and ’quality guarantee democracy’ the relations between the two. The author believes that’The Quality Of Citizens’ idea is, to provide a train of thought to solve the contradictions. On the one hand, improve the quality of the citizens can effectively guarantee the quality of democracy, and thus for democratic system provides a good foundation; Citizens, on the other hand, enhance its quality will also need to through the political participation in real politics, only learning in practice, citizens can really improve their own quality.Before discussing civil diathesis, Mill correction Bentham’s utilitarianism to build his own concept of happiness, then happiness is further stated on the performance in the field of politics, the citizens should have what kind of quality to achieve happiness, finally discusses the concrete method of improving the quality of citizens. There are still a lot of problems in the field of citizen quality in China today, and it also have much room for improvement. Mill’s research achievements may be useful for us to perfect the socialist democratic politics.