John Stuart Mill’s (1806-1873) father, James Mill, was an outspoken advocate of utilitarianism and a friend of Jeremy Bentham, its founder. John Mill was born into a household steeped in utilitarian ...

The author is an industry team reporter of the JoongAng Ilbo. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) adhered to his philosophy even after death. His will was to use his body for dissection and then to preserve it ...

About the author:Christopher C. Heathwood is the author of the chapter: "Subjective theories of well-being" and is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado ...

'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings' Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations on Representative ...

There are few circumstances among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been expected, or more significant of the backward state in which ...

In a philosophy seminar many years ago I called utilitarian ethics ‘the moral view from nowhere’. Like so many smart-ass undergrads I was riffing from a work that I knew my philosophy peers would have ...