Classical utilitarianism from Hume to Mill / Frederick Rosen.
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London ; New York :
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2003.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Utility and justice: Epicurus and the Epicurean tradition
- 3. Reading Hume backwards: utility as the foundation of morals
- 4. The idea of utility in Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- 5. Helvetius, the Scottish Enlightenment, and Bentham's idea of utility
- 6. The idea of utility in Smith's Wealth of Nations
- 7. Bentham and Smith on liberty
- 8. William Paley as a utilitarian
- 9. Liberty, utility, and the reform of the criminal law
- 10. J.S. Mill's hedonism
- 11. J.S. Mill on justice and liberty
- 12. Punishment of the innocent
- 13. Individual sacrifice, and the greatest happiness
- 14. The tyranny of the majority
- 15. Negative liberty.
