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'''John Stuart Mill''' (1806-1873) was the last of the [[English]] classical [[economist]]s.
[[Homeschool]]ed in an [[atheist]]ic way by his father, Mill supported [[laissez-faire]] but with social reforms like redistribution of wealth, shorter working days, and regulation of [[monopoly|monopolies]]. Today he would be called a "moderate [[conservative]]" due to his support of some [[government]] controls over the [[economy]]. 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]]. In his book "On Liberty," Mill advocated that "the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others." He advocated freedom of speech, and generally freedom of action too. Mill also advocated [[utilitarianism]], a concept previously proposed by the atheist [[Jeremy Bentham]].
==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 opposite 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."
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[[Category:Economists]]
[[Category:Political scientists]]
'''John Stuart Mill''' (1806-1873) was the last of the [[English]] classical [[economist]]s.
[[Homeschool]]ed in an [[atheist]]ic way by his father, Mill supported [[laissez-faire]] but with social reforms like redistribution of wealth, shorter working days, and regulation of [[monopoly|monopolies]]. Today he would be called a "moderate [[conservative]]" due to his support of some [[government]] controls over the [[economy]]. 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]]. In his book "On Liberty," Mill advocated that "the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others." He advocated freedom of speech, and generally freedom of action too. Mill also advocated [[utilitarianism]], a concept previously proposed by the atheist [[Jeremy Bentham]].
==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 opposite 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."
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mill, John Stuart}}
[[Category:Economists]]
[[Category:Political scientists]]