Birth of Stuart Mill
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Written by Islamstory
3rd of Rabi' Al-Awwal 1221 AH/ May 20th, 1806 AD: John Stuart Mill was born. He was an English philosopher, political theorist, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential British Classical liberal thinker of the 19th century whose works on liberty justified freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. He was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham, although his conception of it was very different from Bentham's. 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.
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