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John Stuart Mill

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Profession
Philosopher
Died
May 8, 1873
Zodiac
Taurus
Born in
England
About
This important nineteenth-century philosopher contributed to economic, social, and political theory, publishing an 1859 work, On Liberty, that laid out his theory of personal freedom and placed a limit, "the harm principle," on the scope of individual autonomy.
Family
He grew up in London, England, as the son of Harriet Burrow and philosopher and economist James Mill. In his fifties, he married his longtime friend Harriet Taylor.

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