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John Stuart Mill

Also known as J. S. Mill

British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)

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John Stuart Mill was a philosopher, economist, politician, and autobiographer born in London Borough of Islington on 20 May 1806. He was the son of James Mill and the spouse of Harriet Taylor Mill. Mill held citizenship in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and worked in London. He died in Avignon on 8 May 1873. His native language was English.

He was associated with the movements of atheism, egalitarianism, utilitarianism, and liberalism. His notable works include *On Liberty* and *Considerations on Representative Government*. He was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His worldview was atheism. He is described by sources such as the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary* and the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 20 May 1806
Died: 8 May 1873
Works: 834

Top works

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Group
Origin: Canada

Discography

Forget Everything1999

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,018
Total plays: 15,970

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5 total works indexed

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan: 1806–1873
Nationality: GB, FR, US
Role / Field: Philosophes, Economistes, Politolodzy, Politicos, Filozofs, Politologia
Language: eng
Gender: Male

Recorded by 39 libraries

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Quotes

“The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or thing, having an independent existence of its own; and if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious, too high to be an object of sense. The meaning of all general, and especially of all abstract terms, became in this way enveloped in a mystical base...”
“Whatever we may think or affect to think of the present age, we cannot get out of it; we must suffer with its sufferings, and enjoy with its enjoyments; we must share in its lot, and, to be either useful or at ease, we must even partake its character.”
“The remedies for all our diseases will be discovered long after we are dead; and the world will be made a fit place to live in, after the death of most of those by whose exertions it will have been made so. It is to be hoped that those who live in those days will look back with sympathy to their known and unknown benefactors.”
“All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sense of its difficulties, are aware that the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for true, as of mistaking part of the truth for the whole.”
“Granted that any practice causes more pain to animals than it gives pleasure to man; is that practice moral or immoral? And if, exactly in proportion as human beings raise their heads out of the slough of selfishness, they do not with one voice answer 'immoral,' let the morality of the principle of utility be for ever condemned.”
“It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.”

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Works in European collections

35 objects attributed to John Stuart Mill, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Elements of Political Economy

La liberté

Le gouvernement représentatif

System of inductive and deductive logic

Système de logique déductive et inductive exposé des principes de la preuve et des méthodes de recherche scientifique

Système de logique deductive et inductive, exposé des principes de la preuve et des méthodes de recherche scientifique

La liberté

Système de logique deductive et inductive, exposé des principes de la preuve et des méthodes de recherche scientifique

Le gouvernement représentatif

Elements of Political Economy

Inaugural address delivered to the University of St. Andrews, Feb. 1st, 1867

Untitled

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Encyclopedic overview

John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism and social liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. Dubbed "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. He advocated political and social reforms such as proportional representation, the emancipation of women, and the development of labour organisations and farm cooperatives.

The Columbia Encyclopedia describes Mill as occasionally coming "close to socialism, a theory repugnant to his predecessors". He was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by his predecessor Jeremy Bentham. He contributed to the investigation of scientific methodology, though his knowledge of the topic was based on the writings of others, notably William Whewell, John Herschel, and Auguste Comte, and research carried out for Mill by Alexander Bain. He engaged in a written debate with Whewell.

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