Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill · English
Utilitarianism is John Stuart Mill's defense of the moral theory that actions are right as they tend to promote happiness and wrong as they tend to produce its reverse.
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Utilitarianism is John Stuart Mill's defense of the moral theory that actions are right as they tend to promote happiness and wrong as they tend to produce its reverse. First published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861 and as a book in 1863, it sets out the greatest happiness principle, answers common objections, and argues that some pleasures are higher in quality than others. Its five chapters cover general remarks, what utilitarianism is, the ultimate sanction of the principle of utility, what sort of proof the principle admits, and the connection between justice and utility.
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill · English
Utilitarianism is John Stuart Mill's defense of the moral theory that actions are right as they tend to promote happiness and wrong as they tend to produce its reverse.
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There are few circumstances among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been expected, or more significant of the backward state in which speculation on the most important subjects still lingers, than the little progress which has been made in the decision of the controversy respecting the criterion of right and wrong. From the dawn of philosophy, the question concerning the _summum bonum_, or, what is the same thing, concerning the foundation
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Utilitarianism is John Stuart Mill's defense of the moral theory that actions are right as they tend to promote happiness and wrong as they tend to produce its reverse. First published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861 and as a book in 1863, it sets out the greatest happiness principle, answers common objections, and argues that some pleasures are higher in quality than others. Its five chapters cover general remarks, what utilitarianism is, the ultimate sanction of the principle of utility, what sort of proof the principle admits, and the connection between justice and utility.
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