It is indeed interesting that George Eliot had such an intersection with Mill, but as you say she is emphatically not utilitarian.
Yes, while there is much new (and exciting) in effective altruism, I thinks it’s useful to understand how we might link to the past
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It is indeed interesting that George Eliot had such an intersection with Mill, but as you say she is emphatically not utilitarian.
Yes, while there is much new (and exciting) in effective altruism, I thinks it’s useful to understand how we might link to the past