Mill's Principle of Utility: A Defense of John Stuart Mill's Notorious Proof
Mill's Principle of Utility: A Defense of John Stuart Mill's Notorious Proof

Author: Necip Fikri Alican

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-09-20

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9004463666

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This book is a thoroughgoing analysis, interpretation, and defense of John Stuart Mill's proof of the principle of utility. It answers the traditional charges levelled against that proof, supports a comprehensive interpretation by painstaking study of Mill's text in Utilitarianism, and marshals arguments on behalf of utility as the first principle of morality. Universal Justice (UJ) is dedicated to the advancement of justice conceived globally. It publishes interpretations of the history of thought as well as original monographs and collective volumes, including work related to the activities of the International Society for Universalism.

Utilitarianism - Ed. Heydt
Utilitarianism - Ed. Heydt

Author: John Stuart Mill

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2010-08-06

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1460402103

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John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism is a philosophical defense of utilitarianism, a moral theory stating that right actions are those that tend to promote overall happiness. The essay first appeared as a series of articles published in Fraser’s Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. Mill discusses utilitarianism in some of his other works, including On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, but Utilitarianism contains his only sustained defence of the theory. In this Broadview Edition, Colin Heydt provides a substantial introduction that will enable readers to understand better the polemical context for Utilitarianism. Heydt shows, for example, how Mill’s moral philosophy grew out of political engagement, rather than exclusively out of a speculative interest in determining the nature of morality. Appendices include precedents to Mill’s work, reactions to Utilitarianism, and related writings by Mill.

Mill's Principle of Utility
Mill's Principle of Utility

Author: Necip Fikri Alican

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9789051837483

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This book is a thoroughgoing analysis, interpretation, and defense of John Stuart Mill's proof of the principle of utility. It answers the traditional charges levelled against that proof, supports a comprehensive interpretation by painstaking study of Mill's text in Utilitarianism, and marshals arguments on behalf of utility as the first principle of morality. Universal Justice (UJ) is dedicated to the advancement of justice conceived globally. It publishes interpretations of the history of thought as well as original monographs and collective volumes, including work related to the activities of the International Society for Universalism.

Mill's Principle of Utility: Origins, Proof, and Implications
Mill's Principle of Utility: Origins, Proof, and Implications

Author: Necip Fikri Alican

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-01-17

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9004503951

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Mill’s Principle of Utility: Origins, Proof, and Implications is a comprehensive analysis and compelling defense of John Stuart Mill’s utilitarianism with a particular emphasis on his proof of the principle of utility.

On Liberty
On Liberty

Author: John Stuart Mill

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-08-05

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9781536930368

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In his much quoted, seminal work, On Liberty, John Stuart Mill attempts to establish standards for the relationship between authority and liberty. He emphasizes the importance of individuality which he conceived as a prerequisite to the higher pleasures-the summum bonum of Utilitarianism. Published in 1859, On Liberty presents one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom and is perhaps the most widely-read liberal argument in support of the value of liberty.

Rights, Welfare, and Mill's Moral Theory
Rights, Welfare, and Mill's Moral Theory

Author: David Lyons

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1994-08-04

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0195359631

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This volume collects David Lyons' well-known essays on Mill's moral theory and includes an introduction which relates the essays to prior and subsequent philosophical developments. Like the author's Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism (Oxford, 1965), the essays apply analytical methods to issues in normative ethics. The first essay defends a refined version of the beneficiary theory of rights against H.L.A. Hart's important criticisms. The central set of essays develops new interpretations of Mill's moral theory with the aim of determining how far rights can be incorporated in a utilitarian framework. They Mill's analysis of moral concepts promises to accommodate the argumentative force of rights, and also provide a significant new reading of Mill's theory of liberty. The last essay argues that the promise of Mill's theory of justice cannot be fulfilled. Utilitarianism is unable to account for crucial features of moral rights, or even for the moral force of legal rights whose existence might be justified on utilitarian grounds.

Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism

Author: John Stuart Mill

Publisher:

Published: 2018-04-18

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781947844438

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John Stuart Mill's "Utilitarianism" as found in his first edition reprinted in 1863 by Parker, Son, and Bourne, West Strand, in London, from Fraser's Magazine, where it originally appeared in installments.

Mill on Liberty: A Defence
Mill on Liberty: A Defence

Author: John Gray

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1134802870

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Now available in paperback, this second edition reproduces the text of the first with the addition of an extensive postscript which defends the interpretation of Mill set out in the first edition.

A Theory of Justice
A Theory of Justice

Author: John RAWLS

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 0674042603

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Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.