UTILITARIANISM, ON LIBERTY AND CONSIDERATIONS ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.

Mill John Stuart; [Hrsg.]: Acton H. B.

ISBN 10: 0460114824 / ISBN 13: 9780460114820

Published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, Melbourne and Toronto, 1972

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Das Buch vereint drei bedeutende Werke John Stuart Mills: \ Utilitarianism\ , \ On Liberty\ und \ Considerations on Representative Government\ . Diese Schriften erkunden die Prinzipien des Utilitarismus, der Freiheit und der repräsentativen Regierung und sind zentral in der politischen Philosophie. Zustand: Einband mit geringfügigen Gebrauchsspuren, insgesamt SEHR GUTER Zustand! Stichworte: Genres: Philosophie, Politikwissenschaft, Essays; Schlagworte: Utilitarismus, Freiheit, repräsentative Regierung, Philosophie, John Stuart Mill, politische Theorie, Jeremy Bentham, Moral, Gesellschaft, Reform. 123 Englisch 376g.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: UTILITARIANISM, ON LIBERTY AND CONSIDERATIONS ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.
• Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, Melbourne and Toronto
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0460114824
• ISBN 13: 9780460114820
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Sehr gut

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Synopsis

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 speculation on the most important subjects still lingers, than the little progress which has been made in the decision of the controversy respecting the criterion of right and wrong. From the dawn of philosophy, the question concerning the summum bonum, or, what is the same thing, concerning the foundation of morality, has been accounted the main problem in speculative thought, has occupied the most gifted intellects, and divided them into sects and schools, carrying on a vigorous warfare against one another. And after more than two thousand years the same discussions continue, philosophers are still ranged under the same contending banners, and neither thinkers nor mankind at large seem nearer to being unanimous on the subject, than when the youth Socrates listened to the old Protagoras, and asserted (if Plato's dialogue be grounded on a real conversation) the theory of utilitarianism against the popular morality of the so-called sophist.

Review

Adding the selections from the Speech on Capital Punishment is an excellent idea. --Mark Migotti, University of Calgary