name: John Stuart Mill
birth_date: 1806-05-20 00:00:00
death_date: 1873-05-08 00:00:00
genres: Social Sciences, Politics, Philosophy
influences: Immanuel Kant, Auguste Comte, Justus von Liebig, John Locke, Wilhelm von Hum, Arthur Schopenhauer, James Mill, Adam Smith, Socrates, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Francis Place, Jeremy Bentham
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about: John Stuart Mill, English philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was an exponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham, although his conception of it was very different from Bentham's. John Stuart Mill, English philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was an exponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham, although his conception of it was very different from Bentham's. ...more