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Utilitarianism
by John Stuart Mill
Mill's defense and refinement of the greatest-happiness principle: higher and lower pleasures, justice, proof. Compact ethics.
Read it if…
you want utilitarianism from its best advocate.
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Skip it if…
you want Kant.
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Three things you will actually use
- Better Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
- Consequences count.
- Justice is utility's core.
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Read chapter two.
Our verdict
Mill's ethics.
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