John Stuart Mill

Broschiertes Buch

Utilitarianism and on Liberty

Including Mill's 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin

Herausgeber: Warnock, Mary

Beschreibung

Including three of his most famous and important essays, Utilitarianism, On Liberty, and Essay on Bentham, along with formative selections from Jeremy Bentham and John Austin, this volume provides a uniquely perspicuous view of Mill's ethical and political thought.

Autor

Mary Warnock (1924 ? 2019) was an English moral philosopher and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1984 until 1991. She was made a life peer in 1985 and given the title Baroness Warnock of Weeke in the City of Winchester. She was the author of numerous books, including Ethics Since 1900 (1960), The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre (1963), Existentialist Ethics (1966), Existentialism (1970), An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics (2000), Dishonest to God: On Keeping Religion Out of Politics (2010), and Critical Reflections on Ownership (2015). She is widely regarded as a trailblazer for establishing ethical frameworks around deeply controversial issues such as special needs education and human fertility treatments, and is credited with laying the blueprint for regulatory policymaking in these areas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 2nd Edition
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9780631233527
• ISBN-10: 0631233520
• Artikelnr.: 14854627

Rezensionen

"Anyone interested in the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill willbe pleased to have the essential readings in one volume andgrateful to Mary Warnock for her informative and insightfulintroduction." William H. Shaw, San Jose State University

"The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, orthe Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right inproportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend toproduce the reverse of happiness." John Stuart Mill,Utilitarianism

"The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually orcollectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any oftheir number, is self-protection." John Stuart Mill, OnLiberty