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Utilitarianism and the 1868 Speech on Capital Punishment

By John Stuart Mill

Book information

Publisher
Hackett Publishing Company
Year
2001
ISBN
9780872206052
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
740 kB (757870 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
311\311
Topic
Literature
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-09-04 22:15:56

Description

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.

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