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Devin Baker • 8 cards
Mill’s writings can be read as a strenuous attempt to reconcile individual rights with the utilitarian philosophy he inherited from his father and adopted from Bentham. His book On Liberty (1859) is the classic defense of individual freedom in the English-speaking world. Its central principle is that people should be free to do whatever they want,
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I am not sure I do accept God, or how God has been traditionally defined or understood.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
GEORGE BERKELEY (1685-1753) is important in philosophy through his denial of the existence of matter—a denial which he supported by a number of ingenious arguments.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
His really sound and essential conception of Liberty, “Turning to scorn with lips divine The falsehood of extremes,” is as good a definition of Liberalism as has been uttered in poetry in the Liberal century.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power.