Utilitarianism

Name: Utilitarianism
Author: John Stuart Mill

by John Stuart Mill

Ethical theory that happiness results from maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain

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John Stuart Mill

The most important liberal philosopher of the Victorian era, Mill defended individual liberty against social conformity and state tyranny. The Subjection of Women is his feminist masterpiece; On Liberty is the defining text of classical liberalism. Utilitarianism refined Bentham's doctrine with qualitative distinctions.

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