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Was John Stuart Mill really influenced by the romantics?
Biographical sources confirm that young Mill was influenced by romantic thinkers, like Coleridge. See J.S. Mill: Life:
"Mill suffered, aged twenty, a “mental crisis”.Though such episodes were to ...
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Harm Principle and the Trolley Case
The volenti non fit injuria maxim (who consents is not wronged) is quite distinct from the harm principle. First, it is a principle of law rather than morality, and second, if we were to search for ...
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