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How did Herbert Spencer and John Stuart Mill interpret the meaning of the term altruism differently than its inventor, August Comte?

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Herbert Spencer and John Stuart Mill , English contemporaries of Comte, accepted the worth of altruism but argued that the true moral aim should be the welfare of society, rather than that of individuals.

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