How did John Stuart Mill view virtue?

Answer 1

Utilitarianism is a union of hedonism and Christianity. The first teaches man to love pleasure; the second, to love his neighbor. The union consists in teaching man to love his neighbor's pleasure. To be exact, the Utilitarians teach that an action is moral if its result is to maximize pleasure among men in general. This theory holds that man's duty is to serve—according to a purely quantitative standard of value. He is to serve not the well-being of the nation or of the economic class, but "the greatest happiness of the greatest number," regardless of who comprise it in any given issue. As to one's own happiness, says Mill, the individual must be "disinterested" and "strictly impartial"; he must remember that he is only one unit out of the dozens, or millions, of men affected by his actions. "All honor to those who can abnegate for themselves the personal enjoyment of life," says Mill, "when by such renunciation they contribute worthily to increase the amount of happiness in the world ...."

Answer 2

Perhaps the book "On Liberty" cpuld give some clue. Any way, such questions are dificult to answer, one can only make conjuctures through their works. Mill must have looked for a democratic society where highest individua freedom is opssible, against the laisess fare.

Answer 3

Tolerance for our strange neighbors ways