Mill, John Stuart

Mill, John Stuart. A System of Logic. London Longmans, 1961. 

Mill, John Stuart. 1965. Principles of Political Economy. New York Augustus M. Kelley. 

Mill, John Stuart. Considerations on the Representative Government, in Utilitarianism, On Liberty, Considerations on Representative Government (London J. M. Dent Sons Ltd, 1991). 

A scientific theory T (in conjunction with accepted auxiliary assumptions) deductively entails some empirical sentence e e is, moreover, true (or, rather, accepted as true on the basis of experiment or observation). Does the extent to which this success lends confirmation or support to T depend on whether e describes some state of affairs that was unknown at the time of Ts articulation or instead on whether it describes some already well known state of affairs The methodological issue of whether, roughly speaking, successful prediction counts more for a theory than successful accommodation formed a celebrated part of the debate between William Whewell and John Stuart Mill. The latter, while allowing that successful predictions were well calculated to impress the ignorant vulgar , expressed utter... 

Usingthe UK as a reference of course repeats the Netherlands fallacy (see above). These are not extreme reference cases Bangladesh extrapolates to a population of about 100 billion and Australia to 0.3 billion. From Principles ofPolitical Economy by John Stuart Mill, as quoted by Cohen (1995), p. 397. 

Utilitarianism as the root for neoclassical economics has a common basis in Jeremy Bentham, Adam Smith, James Mill and John Stuart Mill (father and son) and others. They were influential philosophers and economists in the eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain [6, 7, 10]. 

Utilitarianism is a doctrine, enunciated by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806— 1873) it is the search for the greatest happiness for the greatest number 7 or, more eloquently, the quantitative maximization of some good for society or humanity. .. a form of consequentialism . Con-sequentialism is the belief that what ultimately matters in evaluating actions or policies of action are the consequences that result from choosing one action or policy rather than the alternative.8 Thus, utilitarianism is a direct counter to the motivation-based categorical imperatives (essentially a deductive approach) of Kant. 

Although 1 have cited the opinions mainly of physicians and hospital managers, it would be false to believe that theirs were the sophisticated insights of a scientific avant-garde. On the contrary. These ideas about madness and madhouses were commonplace. For example, it was obvious to John Stuart Mill that people were committed to insane asylums to punish them for deviance, not to treat them for illness "... the man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing what nobody does, or of not... 

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism, observed John Stuart Mill. (In The Subjection of Women, p. 313.)... 

John Stuart Mill publishes On Liberty [T]he only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of the community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.. . . Each person is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. ... 

John Stuart Mill publishes his essay on The Subjection of Women But was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it . . . the generality of the male sex cannot yet tolerate the idea of living with an equal. .. In the present day, power holds a smoother language, and whomsoever it oppresses, always pretends to do so for their own good. . ... 

John Stuart Mill. Auguste Comte and Positivism, p. 14s. 

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