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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 , he contributed widely to social theory , political theory , and political economy.
Apr 23, 2024 · John Stuart Mill (born May 20, 1806, London, England—died May 8, 1873, Avignon, France) was an English philosopher, economist, and exponent of utilitarianism. He was prominent as a publicist in the reforming age of the 19th century, and remains of lasting interest as a logician and an ethical theorist.
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Aug 25, 2016 · 1. Life. John Stuart Mill was born on 20 May 1806 in Pentonville, then a northern suburb of London, to Harriet Barrow and James Mill. James Mill, a Scotsman, had been educated at Edinburgh University—taught by, amongst others, Dugald Stewart—and had moved to London in 1802, where he was to become a friend and prominent ally of Jeremy Bentham and the Philosophical Radicals.
John Stuart Mill, a supporter of state provision of popular and secular education at a national scale in Victorian England, believed education was a means to foster human mind development, accounting also for the future progress of mankind. Unlike other utilitarian thinkers, like Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill believed that the state, in ...
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See also Terence Ball, “Competing Theories of Character Formation: James vs. John Stuart Mill,” in John Stuart Mill—Thought and Influence: The Saint of Radicalism, ed. Georgios Varouxakis and Paul Kelly (New York: Routledge, 2010), 35–56; Ball, Terence, “ The Formation of Character: Mill's ‘Ethology’ Reconsidered,” Polity 33, no ...
Oct 9, 2007 · John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) was the most famous and influential British philosopher of the nineteenth century. He was one of the last systematic philosophers, making significant contributions in logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and social theory. He was also an important public figure, articulating the liberal ...
Dec 27, 2022 · John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) was a hugely influential political, social, and economic thinker. The son of Harriet Barrow and James Mill, himself a philosopher and political theorist, John Stuart was raised in consultation with the founder of utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham, as a sort of experiment. He was given an extremely demanding education ...