Happiness and utility :  essays presented to Frederick Rosen / 
edited by Georgios Varouxakis and Mark Philp. 
 - 1 online resource (xiv, 318 pages) 
<br/><br/> This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: happiness, utility and the Republic of Letters -- Happiness and interests in politics: a late-Enlightenment debate -- Jeremy Bentham and the Spanish Constitution of 1812 --  Scepticism and Epicureanism: from David Hume to J. S. Mill -- Bentham on ‘Hume’s Virtues’ -- Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Mill on pleasure and virtue -- ‘The first article to look to is power’: Bentham, happiness and the capability approach -- Jeremy Bentham and President Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms -- James Mill on happiness -- Bentham, Mill, Stoicism and higher pleasures -- Individualist and totalizing ethical thinking in Mill’s utilitarianism -- Mill and democracy: taking William Buckley seriously -- John Stuart Mill and the Jewish question: broadening the utilitarian maximand -- The failure of planned happiness: the rise and fall of British home colonies -- Making better sense of ideal utilitarianism. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>London : <br/>UCL Press, <br/>2019. <br/>Available in PDF format. <br/>Description based on contents viewed 23 August 2019. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781787350502 9781787350496 9781787350489 9781787350519 9781787350526 9781787350533 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Utilitarianism.<br/>Happiness.