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245 0 0 _aHappiness and utility :
_bessays presented to Frederick Rosen /
_cedited by Georgios Varouxakis and Mark Philp.
264 1 _bUCL Press,
300 _a1 online resource (xiv, 318 pages)
500 _aThis book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bLondon :
_cUCL Press,
_d2019.
_nAvailable in PDF format.
_nDescription based on contents viewed 23 August 2019.
650 0 _aUtilitarianism.
650 0 _aHappiness.
700 1 _aVarouxakis, Georgios,
_d1966-
_eeditor.
700 1 _aPhilp, Mark,
_eeditor.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787350489
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_d27585