Why J.S. Mill Matters w/ Tara Westover
Past Present Future
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How to Perceive Beliefs in a Mill Way
"I read quite a lot of Mill when I got to Cambridge," he says. "He just articulated a lot of things for me that are you can find them elsewhere, but I'd never read them before" The film-maker was brought up in an extreme Mormon religion and grew up with polygamy as part of his belief system. He found the essay's articulation of what it means to have your own ideas of right and wrong helpful.
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