Philosopher
James Mill
Overview
James Mill (born James Milne; 6 April 1773 – 23 June 1836) was a Scottish historian, economist, and political theorist, who was a founder of the Ricardian school of economics. He wrote the influential The History of British India (1817) which divided Indian history into three parts: Hindu, Muslim and British..
Mill was the father of John Stuart Mill, the paradigmatic philosopher of liberalism.
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Philosophers who discussed James Mill
- Alexander Bain (philosopher)
- John Stuart Mill
- Karl Marx
- Dugald Stewart
- Jeremy Bentham
- John Austin (legal philosopher)
Ideas James Mill discusses
- Empiricism
- French Revolution
- Hinduism
- Historian
- Western philosophy
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Atheism
- John Stuart Mill
- David Hartley (philosopher)
- Dugald Stewart
- Liberalism
- 19th-century philosophy
- Psychology
- British philosophy
- University of Edinburgh
- Thomas Reid
- Utilitarianism
- Max Müller
- Presidencies and provinces of British India
- Reformation
- Liberal Party (UK)
- Jeremy Bentham
- Amartya Sen
- Chemist
Place in the tradition
Part of British philosophy.