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.
- New York : New American Library, (c)1974.
- 352 pages ; 21 cm
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