Transcription of Utilitarianism - Early Modern Texts
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Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill Copyright Jonathan Bennett 2017. All rights reserved [Brackets] enclose editorial explanations. Small dots enclose material that has been added, but can be read as though it were part of the original text. Occasional bullets, and also indenting of passages that are not quotations, are meant as aids to grasping the structure of a sentence or a thought. Every four-point ellipsis .. indicates the omission of a brief passage that seems to present more difficulty than it is worth. First launched: September 2005 Last amended: April 2008. Contents Chapter 1: General Remarks 1. Chapter 2: What Utilitarianism is 4. Higher and Lower Pleasures .. 5. Happiness as an Aim .. 8. Self-Sacrifice .. 11. Setting the Standard too High? .. 12. Is Utilitarianism Chilly? .. 13. Utilitarianism as Godless' .. 15. Expediency .. 15. Time to Calculate? .. 16. Bad Faith .. 17. Chapter 3: What will motivate us to obey the principle of utility?
intuition ·—picks out what ... and present ethical doctrine. But it wouldn’t be hard to show that whatever steadiness or consistency mankind’s moral beliefs have achieved has been mainly due to the silent influ-ence of a standard that hasn’t been ...
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