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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2020
Mill is neither an act-utilitarian nor a rule-utilitarian. Although he professes to regard “utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions”, he in fact makes no appeal to it in determining in Utilitarianism what actions are “of more absolute obligation than any others”. Nor does he appeal to it in his arguments for the two main conclusions of his essay, On Liberty.
1 Mill, J.S., Collected Works, Vol. X, 206.Google Scholar
2 Op. cit., 246.
3 Ibid.
4 Op. cit., 237.
5 Op. cit., 250.
6 Op. Cit .,247.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 Op. Cit., 245.
10 Op. Cit., 255.
11 Op. cit., 214-5.
12 Op. cit., 255-6.
13 Op. cit., 259.
14 Mill, J.S., Collected Works, Vol. XVIII, 258.Google Scholar
15 Op. cit., 276.
16 Op. cit., 283.
17 Op. cit., 262.
18 Op. cit., 262-4.
19 Op. cit., 224.
20 Op.cit., 270.
21 Op.cit., 277.
22 Op. cit., 279
23 Ibid.
24 Op. cit., 267.
