Utilitarianism (Mill)
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Utilitarianism (Mill)
| Full title | Utilitarianism |
|---|---|
| Author | John Stuart Mill |
| Published | 1863 |
| Pages | 112 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Mill’s short defence of the greatest-happiness principle, answering the objections that made Bentham easy to dismiss — a doctrine fit for pigs (hence higher and lower pleasures), no room for justice, no time to calculate. It is the text through which utilitarianism became a respectable moral theory, and the move welfare economics and cost-benefit analysis still inherit. |
Utilitarianism
Where I heard about it
- University of Austin — assigned in Intellectual Foundations of Economics on its Fall 2025 reading list (November 2025), where reading Mill first makes visible how much the discipline assumes without arguing. Full curriculum: UATX Fall Reading List.
About this edition
First published as three articles in Fraser’s Magazine in 1861, and as a book in 1863.
Connections
- UATX Fall Reading List — the curriculum this is assigned in.
- Utilitarianism — the concept page; this card is the book that named it.
- Moral Philosophy · Ethics — the field it argues in.
- Economics — the course context, and where the principle went on to operate.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.