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Utilitarianism and Other Essays (Classics) by John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 promotes the welfare of those affected by it, aiming for 'the greatest happiness of the greatest number'. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was the movement's founder, as much a social reformer as a philosopher. His greatest interpreter, John Stuart Mill (1806-73), set out to humanize Bentham's pragmatic Utilitarianism by balancing the claims o
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781101489581
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Social Science, Philosophy, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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