Mill
Utilitarian thinker's name
Mill as a proper noun most often refers to John Stuart Mill, the nineteenth-century British philosopher associated with utilitarianism and classical liberalism, or to his father James Mill.
It also functions as a surname and occasionally a place name. (Lowercase mill is a grinding facility or processing plant.)
Common male name
- JamesTraditional masculine name
- StuartScottish-origin English dynasty
- philosopherStudent of fundamental questions
- thinkerOne who contemplates
Greatest-happiness moral theory
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
- libertyAbsence of unjust constraint
- empiricismKnowledge through observation
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
harm · freedom · individualism · consequentialism · parliament · Victorian · economist
John
Common male name
- JamesTraditional masculine name
- StuartScottish-origin English dynasty
- philosopherStudent of fundamental questions
utilitarianism
Greatest-happiness moral theory
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
- libertyAbsence of unjust constraint
- empiricismKnowledge through observation
ethics · harm · freedom · individualism · consequentialism · parliament · Victorian · economist
- philosophersAristotle, Plato, Socrates, Kant, Descartes
- 1800s FiguresDarwin, Marx, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon
- ethicsmorality, deontology, dignity, sanctity of life, utilitarianism
- British PhilosophyJohn Locke, Bertrand Russell, David Hume, George Berkeley, Thomas Hobbes
- EthicistsAristotle, Kant, Immanuel Kant, Bentham, Hume
- Liberalismindividual liberty, individual rights, civil liberties, classical liberalism, free market
Millhandcraft
Create something manually
artisan workshop · cottage industry · manual labor · handmade · handicraft
- mill townSettlement centered on manufacturing
- grist for the millUseful raw material
- run of the millUnexceptionally standard or typical
- rumor millInformal gossip network
- puppy millCommercial mass dog breeder
- steel millAlloy production plant
milestone, windmill, miller, milieu, milling, mills, treadmill, milled, sawmill