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Evaluate Mill's liberty principle. What does Mill mean by liberty? What other principles are important to Mill's argument?
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Evaluate Mill's liberty principle. What does Mill mean by liberty? What other principles are important to Mill's argument? John Stuart Mill was born in London in 1806, the son of the philosopher James Mill. James Mill was a close friend of Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism (the theory that states that the right course of action is the course which generates the most happiness). Bentham and James Mill educated J. S. Mill rigorously, to such an extent that he began reading Ancient Greek at age 3. He was reading Plato's Dialogues at age 13 - in their original form. His father trained him in political economy, philosophy, the classics and many other intellectual subject areas. Mill was an active philosopher. He was a member of the philosophical radicals (a group of utilitarian philosophers) and worked for the East India Company. But his education took its toll. At the age of 21,...
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