Utilitarianism: On Liberty : Essay on Bentham

Utilitarianism: On Liberty : Essay on Bentham
ISBN-10
0452005140
ISBN-13
9780452005143
Series
Utilitarianism
Category
Philosophy (General)
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
1974
Publisher
New American Library
Authors
John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Austin

Description

The word utiliarianism was coined by Jeremy Bentham in 1781 in a letter to friend in which he said: "A new religion would be an odd sort of thing without a name." While the doctrine never quite became a religion, its thesis, as expressed by Mill in the first essay in this volume-that the good and right are to be defined as that which promotes happiness-became the dominant naturalistic theory of the nineteenth century and provided the moral basis for classical liberalism.

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