Utilitarianism: Deep Review

Original academic guide to Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill.

• Academic Classics
• 39 min
• Ages 15–99
• 10 chapters

About this audiobook

Mill's defense of utilitarian ethics, happiness, higher and lower pleasures, moral obligation, justice, consequences, and liberal moral reasoning.

Why it's worth a listen

Explain why Mill's short essay remains powerful and controversial: humane, reformist, flexible, and constantly accused of measuring what cannot be measured.

Based on the book by John Stuart Mill, published by Public domain classic

Chapters

1. The Problem This Book Is Trying To Solve
2. The Intellectual Context of Victorian Reform
3. The Central Argument and the Greatest Happiness Principle
4. The Distinction of Quality: Higher and Lower Pleasures
5. The Sanctions of Morality and the Question of Motivation
6. Mill’s "Proof" of the Principle of Utility
7. The Problem of Justice and Rights
8. Why This Work Remains Brilliant and Flexible
9. The Dangerous, Dated, and Unmeasurable Elements
10. How to Read Mill Today and Who Benefits Most