Essays on Ethics, Religion and Society (with: Utilitarianism) (Collected Works of John Stuart Mill - Vol. 10)

Volume 10 includes such significant essays as Utilitarianism,Auguste Comte and Positivism, and Three Essays on Religion, as well as other works, which clarify Mill’s enduring intellectual connection to Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian school. In Utilitarianism, Mill sought to refine utilitarian doctrine by exploring the qualitative differences in different types of pleasures and arguing that higher artistic and intellectual pleasures should be given greater value over lesser types of pleasure. Title Page......Page 1 Copyright Details......Page 2 Table of Contents, pp. v-vi......Page 3 Introduction, by F.E.L. Priestley, pp. vii-lxii......Page 5 Mill's Utilitarianism, by D.P. Dryer, pp. lxiii-cxiii......Page 61 Textual Introduction, by J.M. Robson, pp. cxv-cxxxix......Page 113 Essays on Ethics, Religion and Society......Page 139 Remarks on Bentham's Philosophy (1833), p. 3......Page 141 Blakely's History of Moral Science (1833), p. 19......Page 157 Sedgwick's Discourse (1835), p. 31......Page 169 Bentham (1838), p. 75......Page 213 Coleridge (1840), p. 117......Page 255 Whewell On Moral Philosophy (1852), p. 165......Page 303 Utilitarianism (1861), p. 203......Page 341 General Remarks, p. 205......Page 343 What Utilitarianism Is, p. 209......Page 347 Of the Ultimate Sanction of the Principle of Utility, p. 227......Page 365 Of What Sort of Proof the Principle of Utility Is Susceptible, p. 234......Page 372 On the Connexion between Justice and Utility, p. 240......Page 378 Auguste Comte and Positivism (1865), p. 261......Page 399 The Cours de Philosophie Positive, p. 263......Page 401 The Later Speculations of M. Comte, p. 328......Page 466 Three Essays on Relgion (1874), p. 369......Page 507 Introductory Notice, p. 371......Page 509 Nature, p. 373......Page 511 Utility of Religion, p. 403......Page 541 Theism, p. 429......Page 567 Appendix A. Preface to Dissertations and Discussions (1859), p. 493......Page 631 Appendix B. Obituary of Bentham (1832), p. 495......Page 633 Appendix C. Comment on Bentham in Bulwer's England and the English (1833), p. 499......Page 637 Appendix D. Quotation from "Coleridge" in Mill's System of Logic (8th ed., 1872, 519-23 (VI, x, 5), p. 503......Page 641 Appendix E. Bibliographic Index of persons and works cited in the Essays, with variants and notes, p. 509......Page 647 Index, p. 567......Page 705 End of Volume X, p. 578......Page 716 Liberty Fund is pleased to make available in paperback eight of the original thirty-three cloth volumes of the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill that were first published by the University of Toronto Press that remain most relevant to liberty and responsibility in the twenty-first century. Born in London in 1806 and educated at the knee of his father, the Scottish philosopher James Mill, John Stuart Mill became one of the nineteenth centurys most influential writers on economics and social philosophy. Essays on Ethics, Religion and Society includes Mills response to Benthamite utilitarianism and his development of his own independent moral position. John Stuart Mill (18061873) was an economist, philosopher, Member of Parliament, and one of the most significant English classical liberals of the nineteenth century. Mill spent most of his working life with the East India Company, which he joined at age sixteen and worked for for thirty-eight years. He is also the author of On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861), and The Subjection of Women (1869). V. 1. Autobiography And Literary Essays -- V. 2-3. Principles Of Political Economy -- V. 4. Essays On Economics And Society, 1824-1845 -- V. 5. Essays On Economics And Society, 1850-1879 -- V. 7-8. A System Of Logic Ratiocinative And Inductive -- V. 10. Essays On Ethics, Religion And Society. John Stuart Mill. Reprint Of Vols. 1-5, 7-8, And 10 Of The Original 33-vol. Set. The Publisher Has Retained The Original Volume Numbering. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The primary aim of the edition is to present fully collated, accurate texts of those works which exist in a number of versions, both printed and manuscript and to provide accurate texts of those works previously unpublished or which had become relatively inaccessible