It was John Stuart Mill who articulated the modern concept that with freedom comes responsibility.
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John Stuart Mill initiated the first debate in Parliament on the issue in 1867.
All of which brings us to one of the great intellectual political economists of the past, John Stuart Mill.
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Immediately after confirming that such a system is indeed possible, John Stuart Mill then describes its inherent problems.
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To paraphrase John Stuart Mill, we trade products for products, the surplus of our labor for the surplus of others.
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To paraphrase John Stuart Mill, we trade products for products, and the more profitable our own production, the more that we can buy.
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Glimpses of leading thinkers and the human values they argued for include Immanuel Kant (moral and intellectual autonomy), Benjamin Constant (protection from arbitrary power) and John Stuart Mill (promotion of human individuality).
In 1868, John Stuart Mill made one of the most eloquent defenses of capital punishment, arguing that executing a murderer did not display a wanton disregard for life but, rather, proof of its value.
It all makes me think of British philosopher John Stuart Mill, who described the social theory of utilitarianism, which holds that one must always act so as to produce the greatest aggregate happiness for the greatest number of people.
As in Turkey, the West will be forced to do hard things like develop a policy of containing rather than engaging Egypt, and of identifying and cultivating forces in Egyptian society that are willing to embrace John Locke, John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith over Hassan al-Banna and Qaradawi.
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