Autobiography
by John Stuart Mill · first published 1873
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John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy
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…the full force of the difficulties; and not only gave me an accurate knowledge of these two great subjects, as far as they were then understood, but made me a thinker on both." -John Stuart Mill: Autobiography
on “You Must Try, and then You Must Ask” ↗The article refers to John Stuart Mill's Autobiography. Mill talks about his amazing early education at the very beginning of the book, starting with I have no remembrance of the time when I began to learn Greek; I have been told that it was when I was…
on “Avoiding Programming burnout: lessons learned from a 19th century philosopher” ↗Who decides or sets the difficulty level of "reading ease" (which is a sortable metadata attribute on the search page) ? Some classiications seem a bit ...nonintuitive. For example, the Autobiography of John Stuart Mill is classified as "very diffcult" whereas "The Tempest" by Shakespeare is classified as "fairly easy". I would classify it the other way around, but what do I know, I'm a nonnative…
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