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The Subjection of John Stuart Mill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

David Stove
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‘There is no opinion so absurd but that some philosopher has held it.’ Cicero wrote this around 44 B.C., and even then he was only repeating a saying already current. The reputation of philosophers for holding absurd opinions is therefore very old. Equally undeniably, it is also a well-founded reputation.

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Philosophy , Volume 68 , Issue 263 , January 1993 , pp. 5 - 13
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1993

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References

1 See The Subjection of Women (M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1970). p. 22, p. 24, p. 27, p. 57, p. 68. (All my references are to this edition of Mill's book.)Google Scholar

2 P. 22.

3 P. 22.

4 P. 57.

5 See p. 72.

6 Logic, Book III, ch. III, §3.

7 A Treatise on Probability (London, Macmillan, 1921), 267–268.Google Scholar

8 I read this statement, somewhere in Hobhouse's writings, long ago. But I have never been able to find it again. I would be grateful to anyone who can supply the reference.