Utilitarianism - 9781538002414

John Stuart Mill's book 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."

• • Author: John Stuart Mill
• • Publisher: Nook Press
• • Publication Date: Sep 29, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 84 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1538002418
• • ISBN-13: 9781538002414