Utilitarianism
Author: first_name: John Stuart
last_name: Mill
Language: English
Year: 1879

John Stuart Mill's book <i>Utilitarianism</i> is one of the most influential and widely-read philosophical defenses of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in <i>Fraser's Magazine</i> in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. It went through four editions during Mill's lifetime with minor additions and revisions.<br /><br />
Although Mill includes discussions of utilitarian ethical principles in other works