Simon Evans on JS Mill
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The Great Life of John Stuart Mill
Simon Evans and Professor Anne Phillips discuss the great life of John Stuart Mill. Would he have expected us to be sitting here in 2018 talking about him? Or that we would have progressed so far that human thought would, you know,We'd be like those huge domed aliens in Star Trek who just sort of drift around in night dresses and no longer need to. In a way, quite a lot of what Mill I think is reaching for is an idea of autonomy, of sovereignty, sovereignty of the individual.
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