“Utilitarianism,” by John Stuart Mill

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utilitarianism , by JohnStuart MillTable of ContentsIdeas of Interest from utilitarianism ........................................ ................. 2The reading Selection from utilitarianism ........................................ ....... 4Topics Worth 24John Stuart from photograph of a portrait by Sophus of the hisAutobiography, John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) depicts his extraordi-narily rigorous early education under his father James Mill, a member ofthe utilitarian circle known as the Philosophical Radicals. At the age offourteen, he studied chemistry, zoology, logic, and higher mathematics withtheFacult de Sciencesat theUniversit de Montpelier, France. At twenty,Mill suffered an intense depression, ostensibly from exhaustion and stressfrom his work for the Philosophical Radicals, as he lost all interest in intel-lectual pursuits. Over the next three years, he found solace in the poetry ofWordsworth and Coleridge as well as the Utopian vision of Saint-Simon.

The Reading Selection from “Utilitarianism” What Utilitarianism Is 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 …

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