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John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is a classic exposition and defense of utilitarianism in ethics. It remains "the most famous defense of the utilitarian view ever written" and is still widely assigned in university ethics courses around the world. Largely owing to Mill, utilitarianism rapidly became the dominant ethical theory in Anglo-American philosophy. Though few contemporary ethicists today would agree with all elements of Mill's hedonistic moral philosophy, utilitarianism remains a live option in ethical theory today.
John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is one of the most influential and widely-read philosophical defenses of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. It went through four editions during Mill's lifetime with minor additions and revisions.
Although Mill includes discussions of utilitarian ethical principles in other works such as On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, Utilitarianism contains Mill's only major discussion of the fundamental grounds for utilitarian ethical theory.
This audiobook is from libriVox and is read by D.E. Wittkower.
Chapter 1: General Remarks 00:19
Chapter 2: What Utilitarianism Is 13:19
Chapter 3: Of the Ultimate Sanction of the Principle of Utility 1:19:05
Chapter 4: Of What Sort of Proof the Principle of Utility is Susceptible 1:45:52
Chapter 5: On the Connection Between Justice and Utility 2:08:29
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