#james mill

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Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

James Mill, Essay on Government

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The only intelligible language in which we converse with one another consists of our objects in their relation to each other. We would not understand a human language and it would remain without effect. By one side it would be recognised and felt as being a request, an entreaty, and therefore a humiliation.

Marx, Comment on James Mill (1844)

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Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.

James Mill, Essay on Government

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The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.

James Mill, The Edinburgh Review, vol. 18

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It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

James Mill, Essay on Government

[bocadosdefilosofia]

«La educación que mi padre me dió fue preparación mucho más adecuada para saber que para obrar. No es que él no advirtiera mis deficiencias: como niño y como joven, sus severas reprimendas sobre la materia me escocieron incesantemente. No había nada de insensibilidad ni tolerancia por su parte hacia tales defectos; pero al salvarme de los efectos desmoralizadores de la vida escolar no se esforzó en proporcionarme algún substitutivo suficiente de sus influencias en la formación del sentido práctico. Parecía suponer que yo debía adquirir tan fácilmente como él aquellas cualidades que él, probablemente, había adquirido sin dificultad ni especial aprendizaje. Creo que no dedicó tanta atención ni tanta reflexión a este como a otros ramos de mi educación, y en ello, como en algunos otros aspectos de mi educación, parecía que esperaba los efectos sin producir las causas.»

John Stuart Mill: Autobiografía. C.A.L.P.E., pág. 43. Madrid, 1921.

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"This habit of forming opinions, and acting upon them without evidence, is one of the most immoral habits of the mind. ... As our opinions are the fathers of our actions, to be indifferent about the evidence of our opinions is to be indifferent about the consequences of our actions."

James Mill, philosopher (6 April 1773-1836)

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http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/25295/