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Justice, Liberty, and the Principle of Utility in Mill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

D. P. Dryer
D. P. Dryer*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Extract

Mill is neither an act-utilitarian nor a rule-utilitarian. Although he professes to regard “utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions”, he in fact makes no appeal to it in determining in Utilitarianism what actions are “of more absolute obligation than any others”. Nor does he appeal to it in his arguments for the two main conclusions of his essay, On Liberty.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume , Volume 5: New Essays on John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism , 1979 , pp. 63 - 73
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 1979

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References

1 Mill, J.S., Collected Works, Vol. X, 206.Google Scholar

2 Op. cit., 246.

3 Ibid.

4 Op. cit., 237.

5 Op. cit., 250.

6 Op. Cit .,247.

7 Ibid.

8 Ibid.

9 Op. Cit., 245.

10 Op. Cit., 255.

11 Op. cit., 214-5.

12 Op. cit., 255-6.

13 Op. cit., 259.

14 Mill, J.S., Collected Works, Vol. XVIII, 258.Google Scholar

15 Op. cit., 276.

16 Op. cit., 283.

17 Op. cit., 262.

18 Op. cit., 262-4.

19 Op. cit., 224.

20 Op.cit., 270.

21 Op.cit., 277.

22 Op. cit., 279

23 Ibid.

24 Op. cit., 267.