John Stuart Mill


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Noun1.John Stuart Mill - English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)John Stuart Mill - English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
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* Before Avis Everhard was born, John Stuart Mill, in his essay, ON LIBERTY, wrote: "Wherever there is an ascendant class, a large portion of the morality emanates from its class interests and its class feelings of superiority."
There were also one or two portraits of fathers and grandmothers, and an engraving of John Stuart Mill, after the picture by Watts.
The DAP adviser noted that Annuar must be 'bright' if he could hold a Master's degree in construction management from UCL, which has produced such illustrious personages around the world like Mahatma Gandhi, Alexander Bell, John Stuart Mill, Robert Browning, John Fleming, Walter Bagehot, Rabindranath Tagore and even Khairy Jamaluddin.
Hegel, John Stuart Mill, John Rawls, and Michael Walzer.
West and George recalled the words of 19th century philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill, urging "a recognition of the possibility that we may be in error is a good reason to listen to and honestly considerand not merely to tolerate grudginglypoints of view that we do not share, and even perspectives that we find shocking or scandalous.
The Donner-Driver demandingness problem and John Stuart Mill
Thomas Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, and other liberals, radicals, and reformers had a hand in conceptual transformations that culminated in the advent of neoclassical economics.
The Reverend John Stuart Mill expressed the gratitude of the whole congregation.
Words must not be restricted by social conventions or to avoid mere feelings of offense, as the British philosopher John Stuart Mill brilliantly clarified _ unless they have a realistic potential to incite violence.
It is John Stuart Mill, Mr Verhofstad reminded his audience, who "teaches us that democracy is not a dictatorship of the majority and certainly not on fundamental issues, on issues of vital interest, national interest - and I think membership of the European Union is a vital national issue and interest".
John Stuart Mill, for his part, co-authored with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill treatises against domestic violence and male domination and tracts in favor of women's education.
John Stuart Mill had an unusually intensive classical education that enabled him to read Greek and Latin as a young man with a fluency that few people today manage in a lifetime.