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By John Stuart Mill

ISBN-10: 087220605X

ISBN-13: 9780872206052

This extended variation of John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism contains the textual content of his 1868 speech to the British condominium of Commons protecting using capital punishment in instances of irritated homicide. The speech is critical either simply because its subject is still well timed and since its arguments illustrate the applicability of the main of software to questions of large-scale social coverage.

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In ethics, as in other areas of inquiry, a theory’s adequacy is judged in large measure by the scope and diversity of the phenomena that it can successfully explain. I have tried to show in this Introduction that despite its difficulties, Mill’s version of utilitarianism satisfies this criterion surprisingly well—as well, perhaps, as any other fully developed ethical theory that has ever been proposed. To some, this fact will suggest only that a fully acceptable ethical theory has yet to be devised; to others, it will imply that we should take seriously the case for utilitarianism’s truth.

All action is for the sake of some end, and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient. When we engage in pursuit, a clear and precise conception of what we are pursuing would seem to be the first thing we need, instead of the last we are to look forward to. A test of right and wrong must be the means, one would think, of ascertaining what is right or wrong, and not a consequence of having already ascertained it.

The Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965). Parfit, Derek. Reasons and Persons (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984). Scheffler, Samuel. The Rejection of Consequentialism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982). Sen, Amartya, and Bernard Williams, eds. Utilitarianism and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982). Smart, J. J. , and Bernard Williams. Utilitarianism: For and Against (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973). Utilitarianism CHAPTER I GENERAL REMARKS 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.

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