“Utilitarianism,” by John Stuart Mill
“Utilitarianism,” by John Stuart Mill the self-development of the individual in his influential writings in politics and ethics, including On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and On the Subjection of Women. The work from which our reading is taken, Utilitarianism, deepens and strengthens the greatest happiness principle of Jeremy Bentham and his
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