Advantages: justifies anything! Good for making law decisions Disadvantages: happiness is subject, leaves out minorities.
Utilitarianism is an ethical theory formulated by Jeremy Bentham and expanded by J.S. Mill. This book contains four essays of Mil..
The Book
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The edition of the book I have is this:
On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics) edited by John Gray. It is quite a long book of 628 pages so it takes a little while to get through it.
This book contents a collection of Mill's finest works.
It contains these essays:
* Utilitarianism
... ...these books a bit but Utilitarianism I know in quite a lot of detail so there will be a more detailed commentary on this essay and some criticism of his ideas.
The thing about studying for something is that at times I might be required to read a specific essay but not necessarily the whole book and the same with specific chapters.
On Liberty
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For Mill, On Liberty was about "the importance, to man and society, of a large variety in types ...
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Advantages: Excellent starting point on the subject Disadvantages: A mixed bag
...by Dickens, you may think utilitarianism a cold and unfeeling philosophy, and was indeed, in Victorian times a justification for much suffering and empire building. However, Bentham and Mill's essays show the other side of the argument, and the humanity and compassion that can be present in their philosophy, if it is not misued. Bentham will be turning in his chair. ...
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