Utilitarianism and Other Essays - John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham

Utilitarianism is an ethical theory formulated by Jeremy Bentham and expanded by J.S. Mill. This book contains four essays of Mil.. The Book 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 * On Liberty * Considerations on Representative Government * The Subjection of Women I have not actually read The Subjection of Women so I can not comment on it ... more

Jeremy Bentham, father of utilitarianism, still attends board meetings at University College London, despite the fact that he has been dead for more than 200 years. That aside, this book including his and John Stuart Mill's foundations for the philosophy that still informs every part of our lives, and is an excellent grounding in the subject. If you have read "Hard Times" 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 ... more