British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
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He gave liberalism its sharpest philosophical edge: the case that individual liberty matters not as decoration but as the condition for human progress, and that society's power over the person must be justified, not assumed.
Born in 1806, Mill was raised in a controlled experiment by his father, James Mill, and Jeremy Bentham — drilled in Greek at three, Latin at eight, a prodigy built to advance utilitarian philosophy. He suffered a mental collapse at twenty, realizing the system had left him unable to feel, and rebuilt himself by reading poetry and widening his emotional range. He took Bentham's utilitarianism and reshaped it, arguing that some pleasures matter more than others and that liberty itself is essential to human flourishing. On Liberty, published in 1859, laid out the harm principle: the state may int…
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What is called the Law of Nations is not properly law, but a part of ethics: a set of moral rules, accepted as authoritative by civilized states.
What I stated was, that the Conservative party was, by the law of its constitution, necessarily the stupidest party.
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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 a war, is much worse.
That power should be exercised over any portion of mankind without any obligation of consulting them, is only tolerable while they are in an infantine, or a semi-barbarous state.
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