John Stuart Mill Philosopher

John Stuart Mill, FRSE (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher, political economist and civil servant. He was an influential contributor to social theory, political theory, and political economy. He has been called "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century". Mill's conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. He was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham. Hoping to remedy the problems found in an inductive approach to science, such as confirmation bias, he clearly set forth the premises of falsification as the key component in the scientific method. Mill was also a Member of Parliament and an important figure in liberal political philosophy.

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Birth date	May 20, 1806
Birth place	London , Pentonville
Date of death	May 08, 1873
Place of death	Avignon , France
Era	Classical economics 19th-century philosophy
Main interest	Political philosophy Inductive reasoning

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influenced	Bertrand Russell Karl Popper Peter Singer Robert Nozick H. L. A. Hart Paul Krugman Ronald Dworkin Will Kymlicka Sam Harris (author) Carlos Vaz Ferreira John Maynard Keynes Paul Feyerabend Isaiah Berlin A. C. Grayling William James Christopher Hitchens Norman Finkelstein John Rawls Wilhelm Dilthey Ayaan Hirsi Ali John N. Gray Zechariah Chafee
influenced by	Adam Smith Aristotle David Hume David Ricardo Epicurus George Berkeley John Locke Plato Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas Hobbes Francis Place Harriet Taylor Mill Thomas Aquinas Jeremy Bentham Wilhelm von Humboldt William Wordsworth Alexis de Tocqueville James Mill Alexander Bain Auguste Comte Claude Henri de Rouvroy comte de Saint-Simon Jean-François Marmontel Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
notable idea	Utilitarianism Mill's Methods Harm principle
philosophical school	Empiricism Utilitarianism