[Gutenberg 11224] • Utilitarianism
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- Authors
- Mill, John Stuart
- Tags
- politics , utilitarianism , philosophy , classics
- Date
- 1861-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.08 MB
- Lang
- en
"Utilitarianism," by John Stuart Mill, is an essay written to provide support for the value of utilitarianism as a moral theory, and to respond to misconceptions about it. Mill defines utilitarianism as a theory based on the principle that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."