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    Mill explicitly praised Coleridge alongside Bentham as a ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Despite drawing on conservative thought, Mill remained a liberal and not a conservative.

    Mill explicitly praised Coleridge alongside Bentham as a foundational thinker, treating conservative organicism as a necessary corrective to utilitarian abstraction.

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    • 1.Mill's Dissertations on Indian Philosophy explicitly juxtapose Bentham and Coleridge as complementary intellectual forces shaping modern thought.
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    • 2.Mill adopted Coleridge's concept of the 'National Church' and organic social development in his later political philosophy.
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    • 3.Mill credited Coleridge with exposing utilitarian theory's blind spots regarding tradition, culture, and historical institutions.
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    • 1.Mill's engagement with Coleridge was critical and selective, not an unqualified endorsement of conservative organicism as such.
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    • 2.Mill rejected Coleridge's metaphysical idealism and theistic foundations, limiting the depth of his intellectual alignment with him.
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    • 3.Mill's later modifications to utilitarian thought derive more from his own empiricism and harm principle than from Coleridge's influence.
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