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| Population growth: Population growth is affected by a number of factors, including fertility rates, mortality rates, and migration. Fertility rates are the number of live births per 1,000 women of childbearing age, while mortality rates are the number of deaths per 1,000 people in a population each year. _____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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John Stuart Mill on Population Growth - Dictionary of Arguments
Höffe I 353 Population Growth/Mill/Höffe: By promoting emigration, the state is intended to counter overpopulation as it threatens social peace. Mill does not see that the colonialism associated with this is doing injustice to the population of the colonies. On the contrary, Mill, who has worked for 35 years as a well-paid civil servant in the East India Company, considers colonization a gift of civilization. >Colonialism, >cf. >Postcolonialism, >Civilization._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Mill I John St. Mill A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, London 1843 German Edition: Von Namen, aus: A System of Logic, London 1843 In Eigennamen, Ursula Wolf, Frankfurt/M. 1993 Mill II J. St. Mill Utilitarianism: 1st (First) Edition Oxford 1998 Höffe I Otfried Höffe Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016 |
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