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A British liberal philosopher, Mill championed individual liberty, tolerance, utilitarianism, and the harm principle, making him a foundational figure of modern liberalism.
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John Stuart Mill leans further toward liberty than 89% of the 444 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Power is where John Stuart Mill stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, John Stuart Mill sits practically at the catalog median.
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Current that unites individual freedom, markets, and democracy with the ecological agenda, defending sustainability, rights, and innovation to reconcile economic prosperity with effective environmental protection.
Political tradition that places individual freedom at the center, defending rights, tolerance, the rule of law, a market economy, and limits on power, with government subject to the consent of citizens.
Current founded by Max Stirner in The Ego and Its Own (1844), which rejects the state, morality, religion and rights as spooks and proposes voluntary unions of egoists who associate only while it serves them.
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During the Spanish Revolution, regions of Aragon and Catalonia lived an anarchist experiment of collectivizing land and factories, with workers' self-management and social organization without a central state.
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