Utilitarianism and On Liberty Including Mill's 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin
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Biografisk notat
Mary Warnock was Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1984 until 1991. In 1985 she was created a Life Peer: Baroness Warnock of Weeke in the City of Winchester. Her publications include Ethics Since 1900 (1960), The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre (1963), Existentialist Ethics (1966), Existentialism (1970), and An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Ethics (2000)."Anyone interested in the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill will be pleased to have the essential readings in one volume and grateful to Mary Warnock for her informative and insightful introduction." <i>William H. Shaw, San Jose State University</i> <br /> <p>"The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." <i>John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism</i><br /> </p> <p>"The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection." <i>John Stuart Mill, On Liberty</i></p>
- Contains Mill's most famous and influential works, Utilitarianism and On Liberty as well as his important Essay on Bentham.
- Uses the 1871 edition of Utilitarianism, the last to be published in Mill's lifetime.
- Includes selections from Bentham and John Austin, the two thinkers who most influenced Mill.
- Introduction written by Mary Warnock, a highly respected figure in 20th-century ethics in her own right.
- Provides an extensive, up-to-date bibliography with the best scholarship on Mill, Bentham and Utilitarianism.
Introduction by Mary Warnock 1
BENTHAM
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (chapters I–V) 17
MILL
Bentham (from Dissertations and Discussions, volume I) 52
On Liberty 88
Utilitarianism 181
Appendix
AUSTIN
The Province of Jurisprudence Determined. Lecture II 236
Bibliography 252
Chronological table 255
Index 257
This volume affords indispensable insight from – and into – one of the most profound and influential thinkers in Western philosophy.