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	John Stuart Mill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Stuart Mill was born in Pentonville, London, the oldest son of the Scottish philosopher and historian James Mill.
		Mill was offered a place to study at Cambridge University, but instead followed his father to work for the British East India Company, and after the company was dissolved he was elected for a brief period as an independent member of Parliament, representing the City and Westminster constituency from 1865 to 1868.
		Mill describes the five basic principles of induction which have come to be known as Mill's Methods - the method of agreement, the method of difference, the joint or double method of agreement and difference, the method of residues, and that of concomitant variations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Stuart_Mill (1791 words)

	James Mill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Mill (April 6, 1773 - June 23, 1836), Scottish historian, economist and philosopher, was born at Northwater Bridge, in the parish of Logie-Pert, Angus, Scotland, the son of James Mill, a shoemaker.
		From 1831 to 1833 Mill was largely occupied in the defence of the East India Company, during the controversy attending the renewal of its charter, he being in virtue of his office the spokesman of the court of directors.
		Mill had a thorough acquaintance with Greek and Latin literature, general history, political, mental and moral philosophy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Mill (1327 words)

	James Mill
		Mill was Bentham's tenant and Bentham played a large role in the education of young John Stuart Mill), so it inevitably also had more complicated and heated moments.
		Mill's role in the history of both economics and philosophy is largely as a popularizer of existing theories, rather than as an original thinker.
		To posterity, James Mill's greatest claim to fame was undoubtedly his legendary role as the father of John Stuart Mill.
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	James Mill
		James Mill (1773–1836) was a Scots-born political philosopher, historian, psychologist, educational theorist, economist, and legal, political and penal reformer.
		James Mill was born on 6 April 1773 at Northwater Bridge in the county of Forfarshire in the parish of Logie Pert in Scotland.
		Mill's strained relations with his wife and children stand in stark contrast with his warm and cordial relations with others, and most especially the young men who sought him out for the pleasure of his company and the vigor of his conversation.
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		Mill became the leader of Bentham's bodyguard; or, rather, the mediator between the prophet in his 'hermitage' and the missionaries who were actively engaged on the hustings and in the committee rooms.
		James Mill was one of the countless Scots who, having been trained at home in strict frugality and stern Puritanic principles, have fought their way to success in England.
		Mill also suggested the formation of a legislative council, which was to contain one man 'versed in the philosophy of men and government.' This was represented by the appointment of the legal member of council in the Act of 1833.
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	John Stuart Mill
		What Mill does argue about the necessity of geometry and arithmetic, and, for that matter, the basic axioms of other sciences such as physics and chemistry, is that these principles, while from the point of view of their truth are inductive generalizations, are from the point of view of the thinker matters of psychological necessity.
		For Mill the inconceivability of the opposite in the case of perceptual judgments and judgments of sense was a matter psychology while the inconceivability of the opposite in the case of logic was a matter of that opposite being inconsistent, which is not a matter of psychology.
		Mill certainly objected to the notion, found in Coleridge and other Hegelians, in Comte (both of whom he had read) and Marx (whom he had not read), that there are social wholes that are greater than the individuals which are their parts.
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	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia James Mill - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		James Mill (April 6, 1773 - June 23, 1836), historian and philosopher, was born at Northwater Bridge, in the parish of Logie-Pert, Forfarshire, the son of James Mill, a shoemaker.
		His mother, Isabel Fenton, of a good family which had suffered from connexion with the Stuart rising, resolved that he should receive a first-rate education, and sent him first to the parish school and then to the Montrose Academy, where he remained till the unusual age of seventeen and a half.
		As Dr JK Ingram said, it has the "character of a work of art." It followed up the views of Ricardo, with whom Mill was always on terms of intimacy.
	www.kidsseek.com /encyclopedia-wiki/ja/James_Mill (1329 words)

	John Stuart Mill
		John Stuart Mill, the eldest son of the philosopher, James Mill, was born in London on 20th May, 1806.
		In the House of Commons Mill campaigned with Henry Fawcett and Peter Alfred Taylor for parliamentary reform and in 1866 presented the petition organised by Barbara Bodichon, Emily Davies, Elizabeth Garrett and Dorothea Beale in favour of women's suffrage.
		Mill's attacks on colonialism in the West Indies made him unpopular and he was defeated in the 1868 General Election.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRmill.htm (1474 words)

	John Stuart Mill [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Mill recognized, in later life, that his father's system had the fault of appealing to the intellect only and that the culture of his practical and emotional life had been neglected, while his physical health was probably undermined by the strenuous labor exacted from him.
		Mill criticizes Kant's categorical imperative noting that it is essentially the same as utilitarianism since it involves calculating the good or bad consequences of an action to determine the morality of that action.
		Mill's second argument is that if justice were as foundational as nonconsequentialists contend, then justice would not be as ambiguous as it is. According to Mill, there are disputes in the notion of justice when examining theories of punishment, fair distribution of wealth, and fair taxation.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/m/milljs.htm (5381 words)

	John Stuart Mill, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		The eldest son of economist James Mill, John Stuart Mill was educated according to the rigorous expectations of his Benthamite father.
		Mill was a strong believer in freedom, especially of speech and of thought.
		Mill strongly believed, possibly due to the influence of his wife, Harriet Taylor, whom he idolized, that women were the equals of men.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/bios/Mill.html (569 words)

	Mill
		Philosophically, Mill was a radical empiricist who held that all human knowledge, including even mathematics and logic, is derived by generalization from sensory experience.
		Mill's moral philosophy was a modified version of the utilitarian theory he had learned from his father and Bentham.
		He modified and defended the general principle that right actions are those that tend to produce the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people, being careful to include a distinction in the quality of the pleasures that constitute happiness.
	www.philosophypages.com /ph/mill.htm (360 words)

	Mill, John Stuart. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		A precocious child, he was educated privately by his father, James Mill.
		John Stuart Mill’s philosophy followed the doctrines of his father and Jeremy Bentham, but he sought to temper them with humanitarianism.
		See M. Cowling, Mill and Liberalism (1963); J. Robson, The Improvement of Mankind: The Social and Political Thought of John Stuart Mill (1968); H. McCloskey, John Stuart Mill: A Critical Study (1971); F. von Hayek, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor: Their Correspondence and Subsequent Marriage (1951, repr.
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	Overview of James Mill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mill was born at Logie Pert (Angus), the son of a cobbler.
		Mill became a close friend of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), and together they founded the utilitarian school of philosophy, which promised the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people.
		Mill undertook this by isolating the boy from other children and ruthlessly drilling him in intellectual pursuits.
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	James Mill -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		He was prominent as a representative of philosophical radicalism, a school of thought also known as Utilitarianism, which emphasized the need for a scientific basis for philosophy as well as a humanist approach to politics and economics.
		The obscurity of James Hargreaves's life contrasts sharply with the worldwide influence of his invention, a yarn-spinning machine called the spinning jenny.
		The first lifelike drawings of birds were done by John James Audubon, who used crayons and watercolors to capture all the North American species known in the early 19th century.
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	John Stuart Mill
		J.S. Mill was an economist, a Classical economist whose magnificent 1848 restatement of Ricardo's theory was thought to be so conclusive that, in the beginning of a discussion on price theory, he confidently notes that:
		A Portrait of Harriet Taylor with J.S. Mill, and Harriet Taylor by herself.
		"J.S. Mill: the Utilitarian influence in the demise of laissez-faire" by Ellen Frankel Paul, 1978, J of Libertarian Studies
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/mill.htm (390 words)

	MILL, JAMES (1773-1836) - Online Information article about MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
		mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf.
		JAMES (1773-1836), historian and philosopher, was See also:
		Ricardo, with whom Mill was always on terms of intimacy.
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	James Mill
		James Mill became a friend and disciple of Jeremy Bentham and fully supported his ideas on utilitarianism.
		Mill became a prominent member of the Philosophical Radicals, a group which included Bentham, David Ricardo, George Grote and John Austin.
		Mill's son, John Stuart Mill, also wrote for the Westminster Review and eventually became editor of the journal.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jmill.htm (201 words)

	Philosophical Dictionary: Mesos-Misericordiam
		As a friend of Jeremy Bentham and the father of John Stuart Mill, James Mill exerted an important influence on the development of utilitarianism by arguing that since each individual acts in self-interest, any collection of people must therefore act in the interest of the whole.
		English philosopher who maintained the extreme empiricist view that all knowledge is a posteriori, defended a sophisticated version of utilitarianism as a moral theory, and argued for a greatly enlarged sense of political liberty.
		Patterns of inductive inference elaborated by John Stuart Mill for the purpose of understanding the grounds upon which it is appropriate to make judgments about causal relationships.
	www.philosophypages.com /dy/m7.htm (998 words)

	James Mill: Political Writings - Cambridge University Press
		James Mill (1773—1836) is today best known as Jeremy Bentham’s chief disciple and John Stuart Mill’s father.
		Yet Mill himself was a formidable and important Utilitarian thinker in his own right, who earned the respect of even those who disagreed with him.
		This is the first time that such a selection of Mill’s political works has appeared as one volume.
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	Philosophers : John Stuart Mill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He received a rigorous education under his father, James Mill (1773-1836), and Jeremy BENTHAM (1748-1832), who were close friends and together had founded UTILITARIANISM.
		John Stuart Mill's own philosophy, influenced by his wife, Harriet Taylor, developed into a more humanitarian doctrine than that of utilitarianism's founders: he was sympathetic to socialism, and was a strong advocate of women's rights and such political and social reforms as proportional representation, labor unions, and farm cooperatives.
		One of the most important liberal thinkers of the 19th cent., Mill strongly influenced modern economics, politics, and philosophy.
	www.trincoll.edu /depts/phil/philo/phils/mill.html (141 words)

	James Mill Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mill, James: Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14659.ctl
		James Mill on the gains from trade at http://www.economics.soton.ac.uk/staff/aldrich/
		James Mill's Essay on Government from the Encyclopedia Britannica 1820 at http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/xMilGov.htm
	elvers.stjoe.udayton.edu /history/people/JMill.html (85 words)

	James Mill
		Utility, Property, and Political Participation: James Mill on Democratic Reform.
		John Stuart Mill · Henry Sidgwick · R.
		Though direct moral teaching does much, indirect does more; and the effect my father produced on my character, did not depend solely on what he said or did with that direct object, but also, and still more, on what manner of man he was.
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	James Mill's Essay on Government from the Encyclopedia Britannica 1820
		James Mill's Essay on Government from the Encyclopedia Britannica 1820
		"Mill, James 1820 - 'Essay on Government' from The Encyclopedia Brittanica
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