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Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill
UtilitarianismJohn Stuart Mill1863 Batoche BooksKitchener2001 Batoche Books Limited52 Eby Street SouthKitchener, OntarioN2G 3L1 Canadaemail: 1: General Remarks.. 5 Chapter 2: What Utilitarianism Is.. 9 Chapter 3: Of the Ultimate Sanction of the Principle of Utility.. 27 Chapter 4: Of what sort of Proof the Principle of Utility is Suscep-tible.. 35 Chapter 5: On the Connection between Justice and Utility.. 41 Notes .. 62 Chapter 1 General are few circumstances among those which make up the presentcondition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been ex-pected, or more significant of the backward state in which speculationon the most important subjects still lingers, than the little progress whichhas been made in the decision of the controversy respecting the criterionof right and wrong. From the dawn of philosophy, the question concern-ing the summum bonum, or, what is the same thing, concerning thefoundation of morality, has been accounted the main problem in specu-lative thought, has occupied the most gifted intellects, and divided theminto sects and schools, carrying on a vigorous warfare against one an-other.
Utilitarianism/7 as well as truth and falsehood, are questions of observation and experi-ence. But both hold equally that morality must be deduced from prin-
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