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Utilitarianism|John Stuart Mill

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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."

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  • ISBN-13: 9781541336452
  • ISBN-10: 1541336453
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: December 2016
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.15 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.24 pounds
  • Page Count: 72

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