TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mill,John Stuart
AU  - Bentham,Jeremy
TI  - Utilitarianism: on liberty : essay on Bentham 
SN  - 9780452005143
AV  - B1602 .U855 1974
PY  - 1974///
CY  - New York
PB  - New American Library
KW  - Philosophy-Ancient
KW  - Utilitarianism
N1  - 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
ER  -