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Book Synopsis Utilitarianism by : John Stuart Mill
Download or read book Utilitarianism written by John Stuart Mill and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic from the year 2008 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the 19th Century, - entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: First published in 1861. There are few circumstances among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been expected, or more significant of the backward state in which speculation on the most important subjects still lingers, than the little progress which has been made in the decision of the controversy respecting the criterion of right and wrong. From the dawn of philosophy, the question concerning the summum bonum, or, what is the same thing, concerning the foundation of morality, has been accounted the main problem in speculative thought, has occupied the most gifted intellects, and divided them into sects and schools, carrying on a vigorous warfare against one another. And after more than two thousand years the same discussions continue, philosophers are still ranged under the same contending banners, and neither thinkers nor mankind at large seem nearer to being unanimous on the subject, than when the youth Socrates listened to the old Protagoras, and asserted (if Plato's dialogue be grounded on a real conversation) the theory of utilitarianism against the popular morality of the so-called sophist. ...]
Book Synopsis Utilitarianism by : John Stuart Mill
Download or read book Utilitarianism written by John Stuart Mill and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1870 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilitarianism, by John Stuart Mill, is an essay written to provide support for the value of utilitarianism as a moral theory, and to respond to misconceptions about it. Mill defines utilitarianism as a theory based on the principle that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." Mill defines happiness as pleasure and the absence of pain. He argues that pleasure can differ in quality and quantity, and that pleasures that are rooted in one's higher faculties should be weighted more heavily than baser pleasures. Furthermore, Mill argues that people's achievement of goals and ends, such as virtuous living, should be counted as part of their happiness.
Book Synopsis Utilitarianism by : John Stuart Mill
Download or read book Utilitarianism written by John Stuart Mill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Getting and Being Happy Are So Awesome and Important 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."" Mill's Utilitarianism remains ""the most famous defense of the utilitarian view ever written"" and is still widely assigned in university ethics courses around the world. Get Your Copy Now.
Book Synopsis The English Utilitarians by : Leslie Stephen
Download or read book The English Utilitarians written by Leslie Stephen and published by New York : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1900 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The English Utilitarians by : Sir Leslie Stephen
Download or read book The English Utilitarians written by Sir Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The English Utilitarians: John Stuart Mill by : Sir Leslie Stephen
Download or read book The English Utilitarians: John Stuart Mill written by Sir Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The English Utilitarians by : Leslie Stephen
Download or read book The English Utilitarians written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Leslie Stephen, KCB (1832-1904) was an English author, critic and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. While at Cambridge, Stephen became an Anglican clergyman. In 1865, having renounced his religious beliefs, and after a visit to the United States two years earlier, he settled in London and became a journalist, eventually editing the Cornhill Magazine in 1871 where R. L. Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, W.E. Norris, Henry James and James Payn figured among his contributors. In his spare time, he participated in athletics and mountaineering. He also contributed to the Saturday Review, Fraser, Macmillan, the Fortnightly and other periodicals. During the eleven years of his editorship, in addition to three volumes of critical studies, he made two valuable contributions to philosophical history and theory: History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century (1876) and The Science of Ethics (1882). Amongst his other works are Hours in a Library (1874), Samuel Johnson (1878), Alexander Pope (1880) and English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century (1904).
Book Synopsis Utilitarianism by : John Stuart Mill
Download or read book Utilitarianism written by John Stuart Mill and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2007-02-02 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we decide what is "good" and what is "bad"? According to the ethical theory of Utilitarianism, to do good is to "always perform that act, of those available, that will bring the most happiness or the least unhappiness." By far the most widely read introduction to this theory, John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism is one of the most important and controversial works of moral philosophy ever written. In this major contribution to ethical history, Mill's treatise defends the view that all human action should produce the greatest happiness overall, and that happiness itself is made up of "higher pleasures," such as the cultural, intellectual, and spiritual, and "lower pleasures," such as the physical. The relationship of utilitarian theory to other ethical systems, and powerful arguments in its favor—especially when concerning justice—are brilliantly discussed. How do we weigh options to maximize happiness for self and for those around us? From common-day dilemmas to large-scale social decisions, this exposition remains as relevant today as it was to intellectual and moral dilemmas of the nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis The Classical Utilitarians by : Jeremy Bentham
Download or read book The Classical Utilitarians written by Jeremy Bentham and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2003-03-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes the complete texts of two of John Stuart Mill's most important works, Utilitarianism and On Liberty, and selections from his other writings, including the complete text of his Remarks on Bentham's Philosophy. The selection from Mill's A System of Logic is of special relevance to the debate between those who read Mill as an Act-Utilitarian and those who interpret him as a Rule-Utilitarian. Also included are selections from the writings of Jeremy Bentham, founder of modern Utilitarianism and mentor (together with James Mill) of John Stuart Mill. Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation had important effects on political and legal reform in his own time and continues to provide insights for political theorists and philosophers of law. Seven chapters of Bentham's Principles are here in their entirety, together with a number of shorter selections, including one in which Bentham repudiates the slogan often used to characterize his philosophy: The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number. John Troyer's Introduction presents the central themes and arguments of Bentham and Mill and assesses their relevance to current discussions of Utilitarianism. The volume also provides indexes, a glossary, and notes.
Book Synopsis On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and Other Essays by : John Stuart Mill
Download or read book On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and Other Essays written by John Stuart Mill and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects four of the philosopher's essays on issues central to liberal democratic regimes. --Publisher.
Book Synopsis On Liberty and Utilitarianism by : John Stuart Mill
Download or read book On Liberty and Utilitarianism written by John Stuart Mill and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together these two essays mark the philosophic cornerstone of democratic morality and represent a thought-provoking search for the true balance between the rights of the individual and the power of the state. Thoroughly schooled in the principles of the utilitarian movement founded by Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill nevertheless brings his own unique intellectual energy to issues such as individual freedom, equality, authority, happiness, justice, and virtue. On Liberty is Mill’s famous examination of the nature of individuality and its crucial role in any social system that expects to remain creative and vital. Utilitarianism brilliantly expounds a pragmatic ethic based on one controversial proposition: actions are right only if they promote the common good and wrong if they do not. While much of Mill’s thinking was eventually adopted by socialists, it is in today’s democratic societies—with their troubling issues of crime, freedom of speech, and the boundaries of personal liberty—that his work resounds most powerfully.
Book Synopsis The English Utilitarians by : Leslie Stephen
Download or read book The English Utilitarians written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Utilitarians, Stephen argues, were social reformers first and philosophers second, if at all. The history of philosophy is not an isolated domain governed by the unfolding of a timeless inner logic; rather it is an integral part of the history of humanity. "The English Utilitarians of whom I am about to give some account were a group of men who for three generations had a conspicuous influence upon English thought and political action. Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, and John Stuart Mill were successively their leaders; and I shall speak of each in turn." Sir Leslie Stephen was the first serious critic of the novel, and he was also editor of the great Dictionary of National Biography from its beginning in 1882 until 1891. In 1859 he was ordained a minister. As a tutor at Cambridge his philosophical readings led him to skepticism, and later he relinquished his holy orders. He wrote several essays defending his agnostic position. Throughout his life Stephen was a prominent athlete and mountaineer. Virginia Woolf was the younger of his two daughters by his second wife. His first wife was Harriet Marian Thackeray, daughter of the novelist. This is volume three of a three volume set.
Book Synopsis Mill's Utilitarianism by : John Petrov Plamenatz
Download or read book Mill's Utilitarianism written by John Petrov Plamenatz and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The English Utilitarians V3: John Stuart Mill (1900) by : Leslie Stephen
Download or read book The English Utilitarians V3: John Stuart Mill (1900) written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Book Synopsis The English Utilitarians by : Sir Leslie Stephen
Download or read book The English Utilitarians written by Sir Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of a three-volume set on the English philosophical school of utilitarianism. This volume is concerned with John Stuart Mill, and contains sections on his life, philosophy and economic theories.
Book Synopsis The English Utilitarians by : Leslie Stephen, Sir
Download or read book The English Utilitarians written by Leslie Stephen, Sir and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...] INTRODUCTORY The English Utilitarians of whom I am about to give some account were a group of men who for three generations had a conspicuous influence upon English thought and political action. Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, and John Stuart Mill were successively their leaders; and I shall speak of each in turn. It may be well to premise a brief indication of the method which I have adopted. I have devoted a much greater proportion of my work to biography and to consideration of political and social conditions than would be appropriate to the history of a philosophy. The reasons for such a course are very obvious in this case, inasmuch as the Utilitarian doctrines were worked [...]".
Book Synopsis Utilitarianism by : John Stuart Mill
Download or read book Utilitarianism written by John Stuart Mill and published by Hackett Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Utilitarianism supplements the text of Mill's classic essay with 58 related remarks carefully selected from Mill's other writings, ranging from his treatise on logic to his personal correspondence. In these remarks, Mill comments on specific passages of Utilitarianism, elaborates on topics he handles briefly in Utilitarianism, and discusses additional aspects of his moral thought. Short introductory comments accompany the related remarks, and an editor's introduction provides an overview of Utilitarianism crafted specifically to enhance accessibility for first-time readers of the essay.
