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John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) was the English philosopher of liberty who still sets the terms of liberal argument. On Liberty defined freedom as the space in which a person may think, speak, and live so long as others are not harmed; Utilitarianism asked how the greatest happiness might be a public measure. Mill also wrote for women's emancipation and representative government. Few writers have made political thought feel so urgently personal.

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