Utilitarianism
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Utilitarianism
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Narrated by:
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Fleet Cooper
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By:
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John Stuart Mill
Summary
This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder. The speech is significant both because its topic remains timely and because its arguments illustrate the applicability of the principle of utility to questions of large-scale social policy.
Public Domain (P)2012 Audible, Inc.Editorial reviews
Listening to Fleet Cooper perform John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism is like attending the lecture of a favorite philosophy professor. Though the ideas contained in this audiobook can be dense and complex, Cooper always sounds as though he's speaking conversationally. His meter has a tone evocative of thinking aloud, which cordially draws the listener to the subject matter. In this famous treatise, Mill follows up on Jeremy Bentham's efforts to redefine morality. He objects to Bentham's hedonic calculus and argues that the "Greater Happiness Doctrine" is flawed, for one must take into account the inherent quality of one's pleasure when determining its ethical value.
Virtually every sentence is an amalgamation of words I have never heard before.
The purpose of language is to convey meaning, and in my opinion, this book fails in that criteria.
Hard to follow, too embellished.
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