“unmeasured vituperation, employed on the side of prevailing opinion, really does deter people from expressing contrary opinions, and from listening to those who express them.”
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher, political economist, and politician. He was a paradigmatic philosopher of liberalism and has been described as "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century" by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He conceived of liberty as justifying the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control, a…
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politics · English politician and philosopher (1806–1873) · philosopher · economist · politician · autobiographer · writer · egalitarianism · clerk · suffragist · botanical collector · political economist · also John Stuart Mill, J. S. Mill, Mill
Born 20 May 1806 · Died 8 May 1873 · Q50020
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2026· 5 entries
“ideal of ultimate improvement... would class [him] decidedly under the general designation of Socialists.”
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KOMU 8: Mill and overlay work resumes Tuesday in southwest Columbia
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Revista Merca2.0: Frase del día. John Stuart Mill, filósofo británico: "La educación consiste en enseñar a los hombres no lo que deben pensar, sino a pensar"
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Post Independent: Garfield Re-2 listens to presentation on mill levy override and bond proposal
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2013· 1 entry
The Cameron Tory government considered setting up an independent official regulator of the UK press
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1956· 1 entry
“At night John Mill came in, and sat talking with me till near eleven: a fine, clear enthusiast, who will one day come to something; yet to nothing Poetical, I think : his fancy is not rich ; furthermore he cannot laugh with any compass. You will like Mill.”
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1879· 1 entry
“pro tanto a failure of the social arrangements”
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1873· 7 entries
Died 1873-05-08.
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“The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.”
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“Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow. Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.”
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“How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?”
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“Lepiej być niezadowolonym Sokratesem niż zadowolonym głupcem.”
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“No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.”
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“all conservatives aro not stupid, all stupid people are conservative.”
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1869· 2 entries
“for having broken ground—a thing I have been often tempted to do myself, but having so many unpopular causes already on my hands, thought it wiser not to provoke fresh hostility.”
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Their collaborative works, particularly The Subjection of Women (1869) and Taylor Mill's The Enfranchisement of Women (1851), argued that gender inequality was both a moral injustice and an economic inefficiency (Hansson, 2022; McCabe, 2021).
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1868· 1 entry
When his first term ended, no party would nominate him due to his independent spirit
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1866· 1 entry
Became the second person in the history of Parliament, after Henry Hunt, to call for women to be given the right to vote, vigorously defending this position in subsequent debate
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1865· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 19th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1865–1868).
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1858· 2 entries
Taylor died in 1858 after developing severe lung congestion, after only seven years of marriage to Mill.
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After developing severe lung congestion, after only seven years of marriage to Mill
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1850· 1 entry
Mill sent an anonymous letter in rebuttal to Thomas Carlyle's letter to Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (which came to be known under the title "The Negro Question"), in which Carlyle argued for slavery
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1848· 1 entry
Was one of the most widely read of all books on economics in the period
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1843· 1 entry
In A System of Logic (fully titled A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation)
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1840· 1 entry
By The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon their History, presenting induction as the mind superimposing concepts on facts
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1836· 1 entry
Was promoted to the company's political department, where he was responsible for correspondence pertaining to the company's relations with the princely states, and, in 1856, was finally promoted to the position of Exa
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1833· 1 entry
Which was set up to lobby the government to establish colonies in Australia
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1823· 1 entry
Until 1858, when the company's territories in India were directly annexed by the Crown, establishing direct Crown control over India
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1821· 1 entry
A textbook to promote the ideas of Ricardian economics; however, the book lacked popular support
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1806· 1 entry
Born 1806-05-20.
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