David Bourget (Western Ontario)
David Chalmers (ANU, NYU)
Rafael De Clercq
Jack Alan Reynolds
Learn more about PhilPapers
Oxford University Press (1994)
This volume collects David Lyons' well-known essays on Mill's moral theory and includes an introduction which relates the essays to prior and subsequent philosophical developments. Like the author's Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism (Oxford, 1965), the essays apply analytical methods to issues in normative ethics. The first essay defends a refined version of the beneficiary theory of rights against H.L.A. Hart's important criticisms. The central set of essays develops new interpretations of Mill's moral theory with the aim of determining how far rights can be incorporated in a utilitarian framework. They Mill's analysis of moral concepts promises to accommodate the argumentative force of rights, and also provide a significant new reading of Mill's theory of liberty. The last essay argues that the promise of Mill's theory of justice cannot be fulfilled. Utilitarianism is unable to account for crucial features of moral rights, or even for the moral force of legal rights whose existence might be justified on utilitarian grounds.
|Keywords||Ethics, Modern Utilitarianism|
|Categories||categorize this paper)|
|Buy the book||$50.00 direct from Amazon $84.15 used $355.20 new Amazon page|
|Call number||B1608.E8.L96 1994|
Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server
Configure custom proxy (use this if your affiliation does not provide a proxy)
|Through your library|
References found in this work BETA
No references found.
Citations of this work BETA
Leonard Kahn (2013). Rule Consequentialism and Disasters. Philosophical Studies 162 (2):219-236.
Dennis R. Cooley (2009). Understanding Social Welfare Capitalism, Private Property, and the Government's Duty to Create a Sustainable Environment. Journal of Business Ethics 89 (3):351-369.
Similar books and articles
David O. Brink (1997). Rights, Welfare, and Mill's Moral Theory. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (3):713-717.
Arnolds Kaufman (1971). Wants, Needs, and Liberalism. Inquiry 14 (1-4):191 – 206.
Dale E. Miller (2010). Brown on Mill's Moral Theory: A Critical Response. Politics, Philosophy and Economics 9 (1):47-66.
Daniel Jacobson (2008). Utilitarianism Without Consequentialism: The Case of John Stuart Mill. Philosophical Review 117 (2):159-191.
John Stuart Mill (2009). Utilitarianism. In Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology. Oxford University Press
John Stuart Mill (1987). Utilitarianism and Other Essays. Penguin Books.
G. W. Smith (1996). David Lyons, Rights, Welfare, and Mill's Moral Theory, New York, Oxford University Press, 1994, Pp. 224;Necip Fikri Alican, Mill's Principle of Utility: A Defense of John Stuart Mill's Notorious Proof, Amsterdam, Rodopi B.V. Editions, 1994, Pp. Xv + 240. [REVIEW] Utilitas 8 (01):127-.
Daniel Jacobson (2003). J.S. Mill and the Diversity of Utilitarianism. Philosophers' Imprint 3 (2):1-18.
Deni Elliott (2007). Getting Mill Right. Journal of Mass Media Ethics 22 (2 & 3):100 – 112.
Added to index2009-01-28
Total downloads79 ( #26,640 of 1,699,640 )
Recent downloads (6 months)15 ( #44,888 of 1,699,640 )
How can I increase my downloads?