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Reissued in its corrected 1864 second edition, this seminal text is Mill's major defence of his utilitarian theory of morality.

One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests in how well it

Collects four of the philosopher's essays on issues central to liberal democratic regimes. --Publisher.

These two essays by John Stuart Mill, England's greatest nineteenth-century philosopher, are the fruit of six hundred years of progressive thought about individ

A serious and controversial work in which the authors contribute essays from opposite points of view on utilitarian assumptions, arguments and ideals.