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[[Image:JohnStuartMill.jpg|right|thumb|John Stuart Mill]]

[[Image:JohnStuartMill.jpg|right|thumb|John Stuart Mill]]

'''John Stuart Mill''' (London, 1806 - Aviñón, France, 1873) [[philosopher]], political [[writer]], [[economist]]; he was the last of the [[English]] classical economists.

'''John Stuart Mill''' (London, 1806 - Aviñón, France, 1873) [[philosopher]], political [[writer]], [[economist]]; he is considered by many historians to be among the last of the [[English]] classical economists. However, Mill was a self-described [[Socialist]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=CbJ9Zc-30NoC On Socialism], by John Stuart Mill</ref><ref>[https://www.laits.utexas.edu/poltheory/jsmill/cos/cos.int.html Chapters on Socialism, John Stuart Mill]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=SJaUnQEACAAJ John Stuart Mill's Socialist Thought]</ref>  [[Friedrich Hayek]] regarded Mill as the father of English Socialism,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zIyxAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA60 John Stuart Mill's Political Philosophy]</ref> as did many Fabian socialists.<ref>[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13715/13715-h/13715-h.htm The History of the Fabian Society], By Edward R. Pease</ref>

[[Homeschool]]ed by his father with the assistance of [[Jeremy Bentham]] and Francis Place (Following  the principles of the [[Jean Jacques Rousseau|Rousseau]]'s ''Emilio''). Mill supported [[laissez-faire]] but with social reforms like redistribution of wealth, shorter working days, and regulation of [[monopoly|monopolies]].  Mill was ahead of his time in advocating the development of [[labor union]]s and farm [[cooperative]]s, and [[emancipation]] (voting) by women.  He sympathized with the North in the [[American Civil War]]. He was also an [[atheist]].

[[Homeschool]]ed by his father with the assistance of [[Jeremy Bentham]] and Francis Place (Following  the principles of the [[Jean Jacques Rousseau|Rousseau]]'s ''Emilio''). Mill supported [[laissez-faire]] but with social reforms like redistribution of wealth, shorter working days, and regulation of [[monopoly|monopolies]].  Mill was ahead of his time in advocating the development of [[labor union]]s and farm [[cooperative]]s, and [[emancipation]] (voting) by women.  He sympathized with the North in the [[American Civil War]]. He was also an [[atheist]].

==Quotes==

==Quotes==

*"He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposing side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion. [http://www.fallacyfiles.org/onesided.html]

*"He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposing side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion. [http://www.fallacyfiles.org/onesided.html]

*"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

*"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

*"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it."

*"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it."

*“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”  

*“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”  

== See also ==

== See also ==

*[[Enterprise]]

*[[Enterprise]]

*[[Capital]]

*[[Capital]]

==References==

==References==

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