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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"John Stuart Mill"”.
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John Stuart Mill on representative government
This thesis examines John Stuart Mill's philosophy of government from the perspectives of the individual in society and of society and its institutions. A critique of scholarly opinion regarding Mill's philosophy on representation leads to a repudiation of charges of inconsistency and elitism. …
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Educación para la libertad en el pensamiento de John Stuart Mill
… pensamiento de un filósofo inglés decimonónico, John Stuart Mill. Se pretende con dicha investigación cubrir un campo dentro del pensamiento filosófico del autor apuntado, a saber, su teoría de la educación, la aportación de su pensamiento filosófico en este campo. Se trata de un área no cubierta …
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Truth and Enlargement in the Political Thought of John Stuart Mill
… is an inquiry into the political thought of John Stuart Mill. It concerns Mill’s varying usages of the concept of truth and the critical role of enlargement in the influential political doctrines of his later work. The study begins by observing several deficiencies in the current literature …
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Að valda ekki skaða og minnka þjáningar - Afstaða íslenskra lækna til dánaraðstoðar borin saman við kenningar John Stuart Mill
… hægt að heimfæra afstöðu þeirra upp á kenningar John Stuart Mill um frelsið. Rannsakandi notaðist við eigindlega rannsóknaraðferð og var gagnaöflun í formi hálf staðlaðra spurninga. Talað var við 3 lækna sem valdir voru með hentugleika úrtaki. Tilgangur rannsóknarinnar var að svara …
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A critical examination and contemporary application of John Stuart Mill's principle of liberty as propounded in his essay "On liberty".
Mill's essay On Liberty has been regarded as one of the greatest landmarks and heritages of Western liberal thought. Mill's pleas for the search for truth and the march of mind toward human progress through his principle of liberty as propounded in his essay On Liberty have everlasting value. At …
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The feminism and political radicalism of Helen Taylor in Victorian Britain and Ireland
… contemporary English feminists and step-father, John Stuart Mill. Divisions in the women’s suffrage movement have been blamed on her difficult personality with no examination that it was her socialist anti-imperial feminism which was at the heart of the antagonism. Her important contribution to …
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Legitimacy and diversity : an examination of the problem pluralism presents to the legitimacy of democratic regimes
… philosophers such as Locke, Rousseau and John Stuart Mill. Over the past two hundred years, liberalism has become the dominant ideology in the West and, during this time, liberals have always argued that their values are founded on truth and are thus superior to all other political and …
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"The aesthetic of lived life" from Wollstonecraft to Mill
… and expanded by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and John Stuart Mill in the Victorian period through their "literary self-portraits."These texts have often evaded the scrutiny of scholars because they reject the hardened generic categories of traditional autobiography and embrace instead the …
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Quality and Competence: An Analysis of the Role of Mill's Qualitative Hedonism on his Conception of Representative Democracy
Traditionally, John Stuart Mill has been described as a transitional thinker who fails to fully understand the values he espouses. Critics contend that he cannot simultaneously espouse both utility maximization and the protection of individual choice-making as a non-trumpable value. Like his moral …
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Utilitarianism and Buddist ethics: a comparative approach to the ethics of animal research
… as put forth by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, as well as contemporary additions to the system. It also looks at the basics of Buddhist ethics well distinguishing the Mahayana from the Therevada. Three case studies in animal research are used to explore how both systems can be …
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The question of method in social science
… through the writings of Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill and found its final expression in the doctrines of logical positivism. The positivist ideal of a social scientific method based on observation, experimentation and verification gained dominance through the behaviorist revolution in …
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Liberty, Post-Colonialism, and RuneQuest: the discourse of Imperialism in tabletop RPGs
… of liberty provided by Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill, the ways in which the Lunar Empire and the Kingdom of Sartar undermine their own conceptions of liberty become clear. In combination with the indeterminate telos of the Hero Wars, and the deconstructive properties of mysticism that …
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Staðalímyndir asískra kvenna á Íslandi og endurspeglun þeirra í bókmenntum og kvikmynd
… Þar er stuðst við kenningar frá Aristótelesi, John Stuart Mill, Hariett Taylor Mill og Simone de Beauvoir. Einnig er hugað að sköpunarsögu kvenna úr Biblíunni og væntingum samfélagsins til kvenna í fornum samfélögum, t.d. í gamla assýríska ríkinu, íslömskum samfélögum, fornum taílenskum …
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Er stighækkandi tekjuskattur siðferðilega réttlætanlegur?
… um fjórar siðfræðikenningar eftir fræðimennina John Locke, Robert Nozick, John Stuart Mill og John Rawls í þeim tilgangi að leitast við að svara þeirri spurningu hvort stighækkandi tekjuskattur sé siðferðilega réttlætanlegur. Stighækkandi tekjuskattur er umdeildur skattur sem leggst misjafnlega …
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Happiness Is a By-Product of Function: William Burroughs and the American Pragmatist Tradition
… to literature based on Richard Rorty and John Dewey, focusing on the primacy of narration over argumentation, redescription and dialectic, the importance of texts as experiences, the end-products of textual experiences, and the role of critic as guide to experience rather than judge. …
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The problem of domestic violence. Private violence and Public Policy
… most imperative on the law to interfere with. John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy. The violence which husbands inflict on their wives is different from other sorts of violence in that it normally takes place in a particular location and within a particular set of social relations. …
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Inhabiting liberalism: politics, culture, and the spaces of masculine professionalism, 1823-1903
… the Athenaeum Club, and the People's Palace—as John Stuart Mill, Anthony Trollope, Matthew Arnold, and Walter Besant adapted, imagined, or lived in them and represented them in literary texts, I delineate the relationship between liberalism and the physical locations of its production and …
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Postsecular Victorians: literature, culture, and belief
… Charlotte Brontë, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and John Stuart Mill—actively grappled with issues of faith and rationality in a rapidly-changing economic, political, and cultural landscape. Prefiguring many of the key insights of the so-called “postsecular turn,” the work of these …
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