Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill

⏱ 8 minWisdom classic

Mill's clear, humane defence of the Greatest Happiness Principle as the test of right and wrong: that some pleasures are higher than others, that the standard is the good of all, and that even justice is grounded in utility.

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