1/7 Happy 215th birthday, John Stuart Mill! You may be needed more now than ever. Want some Mill content? Well you could of course read this, um, fine work... 🧵https://t.co/aG0zfEhHaL pic.twitter.com/gm6wxQkNXL
— Richard V. Reeves (@RichardvReeves) May 20, 2021
"It's better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."
— Ethics in Bricks (@EthicsInBricks) May 20, 2021
- John Stuart Mill (born #onthisday) pic.twitter.com/KO06S5EW1f
"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."
— Ethics in Bricks (@EthicsInBricks) May 20, 2021
- John Stuart Mill (born #onthisday) pic.twitter.com/DnrCR7Gra8
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I had an interesting Twitter exchange with my Vandy colleague Talisse recently:Talisse: Just purchased tickets to the huge Star Trek convention happening in Las Vegas in August. I’m not a fan of Star Trek, but I am a fan of Star Trek fans.
Me: Thanks!
--It’s my Millian nature....
--“The only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion"-not excluding Klingons and Romulans. Boldly go!
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