The autobiography of 19th century England’s great utilitarian philosopher is most interesting for Mill’s discussion of: * The methods by which he was educated by his father (learning Greek at age 3, Latin at age 8) and his insistence that it was the methods and not his own native talents that were responsible for his precocity * His work ...
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Believe that nations are equal, in the sense that they are equally entitled to the right to self-determination. Ultimate goal of liberal nationalism is the construction of a world of independent nation-states – “the boundaries of government should coincide in the main with those of nationality” (J.S. Mill).
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2013-3-18 · The U.S. ruling class loves to use absolutism to dope the working class. Right after the murder of the CWP 5, Cone’s Granite Mill where Jim Waller was president of the union local, put out a newsletter trying to calm down the sentiment of the workers there.
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1 Indeed, even the supposed poster children for liberal anti-paternalism – J.S. Mill (1974) and Joel Feinberg (1986) – allow for some such, seemingly paternalist, prohibitions (most notably, of voluntary slavery). Further, there is evidence to suggest the general public does not always object to paternalist policies and institutions ( Blumenthal 2013; Sunstein 2015a).
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2016-5-1 · Thus Mill rejects the self-destructive constrictions [31/32] of Benthamism but, Victorian that he is, discovers a way of stilling yearnings without killing self. Wordsworth's poetry completes Mill's cure, convincing him that the cultivation of feelings can be coupled with concern for the "common destiny of human beings" (A, 96).
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Abstract. Section 17 of Leibniz’s Monadology contains a famous argument in which considerations of what it would be like to enter a machine that was as large as a mill are offered as reasons to reject materialism about the mental. In this paper, I provide a critical discussion of Leibniz’s mill argument, but, unlike most treatments, my discussion will focus on texts other than the ...
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2020-9-22 · J P Moreland, Naturalism and the Crisis of the Soul , J P Moreland, What's So Important about the Soul and Consciousness? , J. P. Moreland, A Reluctant Traveler's Guide for Slouching Towards Theism: A Philosophical Note on Nagel's Mind and Cosmos , Andrew Newberg, Psychology and Neurobiology in a Postmaterialist World ,
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This self, finally, is no philosopher's or epistemologist's self: it should not, for example, be characterized as free, responsible, or endless, and the question of its more or less ultimate reality is never raised. The psychologist takes for granted, without meta- [p. 65] physical reflection and on the ground of every-day observation that ...
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2012-11-13 · In John Stewart Mill’s, On Liberty, we are introduced to a defense of individual autonomy through a passionate argument for antipaternalism. Paternalism is the limiting of a persons liberty in an effort to protect them from some self-regarding harm, either through laws, or other forms of coercion.
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Mill was one of the most fascinating individuals in the history of Western philosophy. A child prodigy, he studied Greek and mathematics from the age of three and read all of Plato’s dialogues in Greek by his early teens. Mill’s classic work, Utilitarianism, sets forth the major tenets of the doctrine and reformulates many of Bentham’s ideas.
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2020-10-12 · On Liberty John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill explains “The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.”
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2011-1-10 · Mill was introduced to her as early as 1831, at a dinner-party at Mr. Taylor's house, where were present, amongst others, Roebuck, W. J. Fox, and Miss Harriet Martineau. The acquaintance rapidly ripened into intimacy and the intimacy into friendship, and Mill was never weary of expatiating on all the advantages of so singular a relationship.
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2020-11-7 · Sartre’s Political Philosophy. French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), the best known European public intellectual of the twentieth century, developed a highly original political philosophy, influenced in part by the work of Hegel and Marx. Although he wrote little on ethics or politics prior to World War II, political themes dominated his writings from 1945 onwards.
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2020-10-12 · John Stuart Mill (1806–73). ... the anti-self-consciousness theory of Carlyle. I never, indeed, wavered in the conviction that happiness is the test of all rules of conduct, and the end of life. But I now thought that this end was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed ...
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Mill on Individuality. To political theorist J.S. Mill, individuality is the basis of progress. 67 That is, history as humanity’s creation moves forward due to those who dare to question, challenge, and change society for the better. 68 For a government to progress, it is only right for it to nurture and foster civil liberties since those who ...
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2016-7-25 · The pragmatist roots of constructivist grounded theory make it a useful method for pursuing critical qualitative inquiry. Pragmatism offers ways to think about critical qualitative inquiry; constructivist grounded theory offers strategies for doing it. Constructivist grounded theory fosters asking emergent critical questions throughout inquiry.
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Key works: Chapters 11 and 12 of Mill 1865 contain the original statement of the phenomenalist position. The first attempt to develop phenomenalism in detail is Carnap 1928 (for subsequent attempts, see Price 1932, Chapter 8 of Lewis 1946, and Pelczar 2015).Other sympathetic discussions include Ayer 1947 and Chapters 5 and 6 of Fumerton 1985.Important critical discussions include Chisholm 1948 ...
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4 In J. S. Mill, Essays on Ethics, Religion and Society, Collected Works, vol. X (ed. J. M. Robson), ; 2 In 1863, John Stuart Mill, the true heir of Benthamite utilitarianism, raised those rights from the dead, rights that since then have enjoyed rude health, despite the occasional crisis. More than in any other of his works, in Utilitarianism, 4 published at that date, what he would call ...
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Finally, J.S. Mill distinguishes himself from classical utilitarians like Henry Sidgwick on this issue: Mill boldly states “there is no parity between the feeling of a person for his own opinion, and the feeling of another who is offended at his holding it; no more than between the desire of a thief to take a purse, and the desire of the ...
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Advanced level Politics revision looking at Democratic Theory. Topics include Ambiguities in defining democracy – concept of who the people are can CHANGE in circumstance, Liberal view on democracy, Social and radical democrat view on democracy, Direct democracy, Representative democracy, Models of representation, Direct and representative democracy, Models of Democracy, Classical democracy ...
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2020-4-15 · The following passage from “Crisis in my Mental History. One Stage Onward” — the fifth chapter of Mill's Autobiography — stands as one of the classic Victorian texts that narrate the abandonment of childhood belief. Unlike what John Ruskin described in Fors and Præterita as his own “unconversion,” Mill's took the form of loss of faith in a secular political philosophy ...
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Another of Mill’s stratagems was to invoke phrases such as “higher nature” and “noblest minds” to describe those promoting utility and progress. The implication was that those who opposed Mill’s vision proceeded from base motives or simply weren’t so bright. Above all, Mill …
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The anti-theorists’ claim that moral theory is harmful must be updated, to match changes in the practices and self image of contemporary moral philosophers over the last few decades. Now, there are at least two distinct courses of action for the anti-theorists in this situation, if they wish to hold on to the view that there is something ...
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2018-1-9 · Those who desire virtue for its own sake, desire it either because the consciousness of it is a pleasure, or because the consciousness of being without it is a pain, or for both reasons united; as in truth the pleasure and pain seldom exist separately, but almost always together—the same person feeling pleasure in the degree of virtue ...
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2004-7-26 · There are two kinds of consciousness of self: consciousness of oneself and one’s psychological states in inner sense and consciousness of oneself and one’s states via performing acts of apperception. Kant’s term for the former was ‘empirical self-consciousness’. A leading term for the latter was ‘transcendental apperception’ (TA).
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2020-11-7 · The pioneering revisionism of Cowling and Hamburger has been confirmed by Linda C. Raeder. In her John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity (2002), Raeder thoroughly examines all of Mill's major works and other relevant materials to uncover the pattern behind Mill's "self-avowed eclecticism" and his easy employment of "the idiom of the liberal tradition he knew so well."
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Brentano's theory of consciousness has garnered a surprising amount of attention in recent philosophy of mind (Thomasson 2000, Caston 2002, Hossack 2002, 2006, Kriegel 2003a, 2003b, 2009, Thomas ...
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Utilitarianism, in normative ethics, a tradition stemming from the late 18th- and 19th-century English philosophers and economists Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill according to which an action is right if it tends to promote happiness and wrong if it tends to produce the reverse of happiness.
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