Hostname: page-component-5cf477f64f-54txb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-04-01T20:58:54.149Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Mill's Criterion of Wrong Conduct

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2010

D. G. Brown
D. G. Brown
Affiliation:
The University of British Columbia
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

There are two related problems in the interpretation of Mill's ethics which become pressing once one has surmounted the more common misunderstandings and seen the over-all shape of his theory. One problem is to state his criterion of moral wrongness; the other is to show how he thinks this criterion derivable with the help ofthe Principle of Utility.

Type
Articles
Information
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , March 1982 , pp. 27 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1982

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Brandt, R. B., “Some Merits of One Form of Rule Utilitarianism”, University of Colorado Studies Series in Philosophy, no. 3 (1967).Google Scholar
Brown, D. G., “Mill on Liberty and Morality”, Philosophical Review 81 (1972), 133–158.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brown, D. G., “What is Mill's Principle of Utility?”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 3 (1973), 1–12.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brown, D. G., “Mill's Act-Utilitarianism”, Philosophical Quarterly 24 (1974), 67–68.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Copp, David, “Mill's Iterated Utilitarianism”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary vol. 5, New Essays on John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism (1979).Google Scholar
Diggs, B. J., “Rules and Utilitarianism”, American Philosophical Quarterly 1 (1964), 32–44.Google Scholar
Dryer, D. P., Introductory Essay, “Mill's Utilitarianism”, in Essays on Ethics, Religion, and Society, vol. 10 of Mill's Collected Works (Toronto, 1969).Google Scholar
Lyons, David, “Mill's Theory of Morality”, Nous 10 (1976), 101–120.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lyons, David, “Human Rights and the General Welfare”, Philosophy and Public Affairs 6 (1977), 113–129.Google Scholar
Mill, James, Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind, ed. with additional notes by Mill, J. S. (2 vols.; London, 1869).Google Scholar
Mill, J. S., A System of Logic (8th ed.; 1872).Google Scholar
Mill, J. S., Utilitarianism (1861). Page references are first to Essays on Ethics, Religion and Society, vol. 10 of the Collected Works (Toronto, 1969), followed by the corresponding pages of the Everyman edition of Utilitarianism, Liberty, and Representative Government.Google Scholar
Mill, J. S., Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849–1873, ed. and, Francis E. MinekaLindley, Dwight N., vol. 4, which is Collected Works, vol. 17 (Toronto, 1972).CrossRefGoogle Scholar