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Happiness and Utility brings together experts on utilitarianism to explore the concept of happiness within the utilitarian tradition, situating it in earlier eighteenth-century thinkers and working through some of its developments at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Drawing on a range of philosophical and historical approaches to the study of the central idea of utilitarianism, the chapters provide a rich set of insights into a founding component of ethics and modern political and economic thought, as well as political and economic practice. In doing so, the chapters examine the multiple dimensions of utilitarianism and the contested interpretations of this standard for judgement in morality and public policy.
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Philosophical CriticismTable of contents
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Happiness, Utility and the Republic of Letters
- 2 Happiness and Interests in Politics: A Late-Enlightenment Debate
- 3 Jeremy Bentham and the Spanish Constitution of 1812
- 4 Scepticism and Epicureanism: From David Hume to J. S. Mill
- 5 Bentham on ‘Hume’s Virtues’
- 6 Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Mill on Pleasure and Virtue
- 7 ‘The First Article to Look to is Power’: Bentham, Happiness and the Capability Approach
- 8 Jeremy Bentham and President Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms
- 9 James Mill on Happiness
- 10 Bentham, Mill, Stoicism and Higher Pleasures
- 11 Individualist and Totalizing Ethical Thinking in Mill’s Utilitarianism
- 12 Mill and Democracy: Taking William Buckley Seriously
- 13 John Stuart Mill and the Jewish Question: Broadening the Utilitarian Maximand
- 14 The Failure of Planned Happiness: The Rise and Fall of British Home Colonies
- 15 Making Better Sense of Ideal Utilitarianism
- Index