Utilitarianism

ISBN-13: 9781541336452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 72 str.

John Stuart Mill

Opis

John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism is a classic exposition and defence of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. Mill's aim in the book is to explain what utilitarianism is, to show why it is the best theory of ethics, and to defend it against a wide range of criticisms and misunderstandings. Though heavily criticized both in Mill's lifetime and in the years since, Utilitarianism did a great deal to popularize utilitarian ethics and was -the most influential philosophical articulation of a liberal humanistic morality that was produced in the nineteenth century.-