Category Archives: Notes

Utilitarianism (and the Baha’i Faith) Part 2

September 19, 2009 – 8:19 pm

Chapter 2: What Utilitarianism Is The Principle of Utility states, “Pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends” (Chapter 2, para. 2). John Stuart Mills defines utilitarianism throughout the second chapter, and addresses a number of dissenting opinions, all of which boil down–in his view–to a failure to understand the meaning [...]

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Notes on John Stuart Mills’ Utilitarianism

September 1, 2009 – 8:37 pm

Ryan pointed me toward John Stuart Mills’ Utilitarianism, so I’ve begun to read it as part of an exploration of economics and moral philosophy. Notes and reflections will go into a series of blog posts here. Published in 1871, Utilitarianism is a slim volume which attempts, in just 5 chapters, to prove the Utilitarian Principle [...]

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