Chapter 3, paragraph 7
Critique of the Calvinist theory: 'Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.'
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From On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Mill criticizes Calvinist self-abnegation, Comte's authoritarian positivism, and Christian morality's incompleteness, contrasting them with Greek and pagan ideals of self-development.
Chapter 1, paragraph 7
Reference to Comte's Systeme de Politique Positive as a despotism of society over the individual.
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Critique of Christian morality as partial and in need of supplementation from secular ethics.
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