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id: 16833
title: Auguste Comte and Positivism
author: Mill, John Stuart
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  M. Comte claims no originality for this conception of human knowledge. Comte''s view of the evolution of human thought, as a when the real character of the positive laws of nature had come to be in general laws, the positive spirit, having now no longer need of the whatever number of different abstract sciences these laws may belong. Comte in the expression, that concrete science relates to Beings, or science, considered as to their relation to the general sum of human philosophic point of view leads us to conceive the study of natural laws Comte''s conception of Positive Philosophy, thought that the proper mode of constructing a positive Social Science must be by deducing it from the general laws of human nature, using the evidence, contradicts the established general laws of human nature; if Comte, regard the Grand Etre, Humanity, or Mankind, as composed, in the


id: 5123
title: The Contest in America
author: Mill, John Stuart
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  professions, to consider a fight against slavery as a fight for God. Now, when the mind of England, and it may almost be said, of the a right to expect from the great anti-slavery people, in their really moral state of the American mind which has appeared for many years. party constituted which now rules the United States: on slavery slavery in the States where it legally exists. interference by the Federal Congress with slavery in the Slave States; The present government of the United States is not an Abolitionist power than the constituted authorities of the Slave States. Confine it to the present States, and the owners of slave property slaves free who belong to persons in arms against the Union. The assumed difficulty of governing the Southern States as free and the admission into the Union of any new Slave State. have to fight the Slave States ourselves at far greater disadvantages,


id: 5669
title: Considerations on Representative Government
author: Mill, John Stuart
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  government of a country is what the social forces in existence compel state of things good government is impossible. officers of government, themselves persons of superior virtue and government, which is best under a free constitution, would generally A good despotism means a government in which, so far as depends on the good government its principal element, the improvement of the people The meaning of representative government is, that the whole people, or best constitution of a representative government is how to provide reference to public opinion necessary in all acts of the government of government--responsibility to those for whose benefit political power in the localities, of officers representing the general government, general government to see that the local officers do their duty. the same principles as that of representative governments generally. responsibility to the people of that country, and to govern one general government, not by the intermediate body, and a great officer


id: 10378
title: Autobiography
author: Mill, John Stuart
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  MORAL INFLUENCES IN EARLY YOUTH--MY FATHER''S CHARACTER AND OPINIONS English Government_, a book of great merit for its time, and which he though for a long time only on minor points, and making his opinion and it fixed my opinion and feeling from that time forward. He thought human life a poor thing at best, At this time Mr. Bentham passed some part of every year at Barrow Green House, in a of my father, a tyro in the great subjects of human opinion; but he thought extreme opinions, in politics and philosophy, were weekly much time to write, and when written come, in general, too slowly into opinions on the great subjects of thought, but for proving to his own My father''s tone of thought and feeling, I now felt myself at a great work, at that time, greatly in advance of the public mind), I wrote for


id: 11224
title: Utilitarianism
author: Mill, John Stuart
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  of things upon their happiness, the principle of utility, or as Bentham Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable standard of morality, and of the very meaning of the words right and the supreme law of morals, I answer, that an utilitarian who believes in happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes pain, but that the will is a different thing from desire; that a person Justice, only a particular kind or branch of general utility, and think we think that a person is bound in justice to do a thing, it is an the term appeared generally to involve the idea of a personal right--a right in some person, correlative to the moral obligation--constitutes not place the distinction between justice and morality in general where principle of utility, if it be not that ''happiness'' and ''desirable'' are


id: 12004
title: Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy
author: Mill, John Stuart
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  capital, to purchase a quantity of another commodity which, if produced foreign country, we may be able to obtain a greater return to our labour commodities at a smaller expense of labour and capital than they cost cost her 100 days'' labour, equal to the quantity produced in England by 200 days'' labour, she could in the supposed case purchase in England the labour in England in the article of cloth would be equal to the produce therefore, the general fall of money-prices, the English producers will increase in the general productiveness of the labour and capital of the latter case, a large portion of the productive capital of the country is productive labourer; so were the producers of the perishable articles; labour, to the production of commodities, no more than the price of production; in other words, the _quantity of labour_ required to produce


id: 34901
title: On Liberty
author: Mill, John Stuart
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  punish him for acts or even opinions which are anti-social in character. on the regulation of human conduct, is the feeling in each person''s mind things society ought to like or dislike, than in questioning whether its feeling; absolute freedom of opinion and sentiment on all subjects, opposed to the general tendency of existing opinion and practice. powers of society over the individual, both by the force of opinion and right to think his judgment better than that of any person, or any every subject on which difference of opinion is possible, the truth state of the human mind, the interests of truth require a diversity of other free countries, of the ascendency of public opinion in the State. questions of social morality, of duty to others, the opinion of the likely to be wrong as right; for in these cases public opinion means, at better grounds than that persons whose religious opinions are different


id: 38138
title: Socialism
author: Mill, John Stuart
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  great increase of electoral power which the Act places within the SOCIALIST OBJECTIONS TO THE PRESENT ORDER OF SOCIETY. present exist in society as part of their case, whether these are society in respect to Property and the Production and Distribution of that it is possible in our present state of society to develop, to produce a repugnance for work--a disgust for labor. THE SOCIALIST OBJECTIONS TO THE PRESENT ORDER OF SOCIETY EXAMINED. of property in anything which is the product of human labor and a new order of society, in which private property and individual produce of the community''s labor as any other member of it; he would regard to the great majority of the producing classes. many different kinds of work required in every society are very or not of labor, the society divides the remainder of the produce For instance, in early states of society, the right of property did


