Mill, John Stuart 1806-1873 creator text utu 2004 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Utilitarianism" by John Stuart Mill is an essay written in 1861 that defends the ethical theory of utilitarianism. Mill argues that actions are right when they promote happiness and wrong when they produce the opposite. He refines earlier utilitarian ideas by distinguishing between higher intellectual pleasures and lower bodily ones, while addressing numerous criticisms of the theory. The work attempts to harmonize utilitarian principles with ordinary morality and show how traditional moral rules serve the greatest happiness. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism_(book) Release date is 2004-02-01 Produced by Julie Barkley, Garrett Alley and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Original publication data not identified Utilitarianism B Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11224 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11224 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133252.0 11224