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Jeremy Bentham, the founder of classical utilitarianism, was a seminal figure in the history of modern political thought. This lively monograph presents the numerous French connections of an emblematic British thinker. Perhaps more than any other intellectual of his time, Bentha…
Hare was one of the most important ethical theorists of the 20th century, and one of his graduate students, Peter Singer, became famous for his writings on animals and personhood. Singer now says that he endorses Hare's "two-level utilitarianism," and he has invoked the theory'…
"[Varner] presents a new philosophical defense of two-level utilitarianism and its metaethical foundation (universal prescriptivism), and he significantly expands Hare's account of how 'intuitive level rules' function in moral thinking, based on recent empirical research. The bo…
David O. Brink offers a reconstruction and assessment of John Stuart Mill's contributions to the utilitarian and liberal traditions. Brink defends interpretations of key elements in Mill's moral and political thought, and shows how a perfectionist reading of his conception of ha…
Contains three of John Stuart Mill's widely-read works.
Machine generated contents note: -- PROLOGUE: Modern Radicalism and Mill -- PART 1: THE UTILITARIAN READING OF ACCUMULATION -- Chapter 1: Antecedents -- Chapter 2: The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number -- Chapter 3: Bentham's Liberal Triumphalism -- Chapter 4: Utilitaria…
"While there had been much radical thought before John Stuart Mill, Joseph Persky argues it was Mill, as he moved to the left, who provided the radical wing of liberalism with its first serious analytical foundation, a political economy of progress that still echoes today. A rer…
