Utilitarianism
Overview
John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is a classic exposition and defense of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; The articles are 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. Although 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: 9781547169818
- ISBN-10: 1547169818
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: June 2017
- Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.17 pounds
- Page Count: 46
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