Utilitarianism and other essays

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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 of reason and the imagination, individuality and social well-being in essays such as 'Bentham', 'Coleridge' and, above all, Utilitarianism. The works by Bentham and Mill collected in this volume show the creation and development of a system of ethics that has had an enduring influence on moral philosophy and legislative policy. … full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author

John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873

Other Authors

Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832
Alan Ryan, 1940-

Document Type

Books

Physical Description

344 stran ; 20 cm

Published

London : Penguin Books, 2004

Series

Penguin classics

Subjects

Mill, John Stuart, > 1806-1873

Bentham, Jeremy, > 1748-1832

utilitarismus

morálka a společnost

morální hodnoty

eseje

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Bibliography

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ISBN

978-0-140-43272-5