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Utilitarianism : on liberty : essay on Bentham / John Stuart Mill ; together with selected writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin ; edited with an introduction by Mary Warnock.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New American Library, (c)1974.Description: 352 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780452005143
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • B1602 .U855 1974
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Contents:
Bentham (from Dissertations and discussions, volume I) ; On liberty ; Utilitarianism / Mill -- The Province of jurisprudence determined, Lecture II / Austin.
Subject: The word utiliarianism was coined by Jeremy Bentham in 1781 in a letter to friend in which he said: "A new religion would be an odd sort of thing without a name." While the doctrine never quite became a religion, its thesis, as expressed by Mill in the first essay in this volume-that the good and right are to be defined as that which promotes happiness-became the dominant naturalistic theory of the nineteenth century and provided the moral basis for classical liberalism
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Withdrawn G. Allen Fleece Library WITHDRAWN Non-fiction B1602.M645.U855 1974 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 31923000350930

Introduction to the principles of morals and legislation (chapters I-V) / Bentham -- Bentham (from Dissertations and discussions, volume I) ; On liberty ; Utilitarianism / Mill -- The Province of jurisprudence determined, Lecture II / Austin.

The word utiliarianism was coined by Jeremy Bentham in 1781 in a letter to friend in which he said: "A new religion would be an odd sort of thing without a name." While the doctrine never quite became a religion, its thesis, as expressed by Mill in the first essay in this volume-that the good and right are to be defined as that which promotes happiness-became the dominant naturalistic theory of the nineteenth century and provided the moral basis for classical liberalism

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