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John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, and politician. He was a paradigmatic philosopher of liberalism and has been described as "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century" by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He conceived of liberty as justifying the freedom…

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Education
University College London
Born
(1806-05-20)20 May 1806 Pentonville, Middlesex, England
Died
7 May 1873(1873-05-07) (aged 66) Avignon, Vaucluse, France
Era
19th-century philosophy · Classical economics
Influences
Appleton · Bentham · Carlyle · Comte · Fourier
Main interests
Economics · ethics · logic · politics

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