http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/soren-kierkegaard Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:06:47 -0400 Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:06:47 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1310/john-stuart-mills-solution-to-the-problem-of-socrates-in-the-autobiography By N L. N - Ever since its posthumous publication, John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography has elicited reactions of primarily disappointment and confusion. Thomas Carlyle famously deemed the book the “autobiography of a steam-engine” (quoted in Levi 295) and readers since have generally agreed with his verdict. Leslie Stephen and Harold Laski argue that Mill’s Autobiography is “severely deficient,” (Levi 284) on account of its mechanical and emotionally sterile prose and its complete lack of details about any aspects of Mill’s life which are not obviously relevant to his... Mon, 16 Nov 2015 08:02 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1310/john-stuart-mills-solution-to-the-problem-of-socrates-in-the-autobiography