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Utilitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 25,611 ratings — published 1861
The Principles of Morals and Legislation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 662 ratings — published 1789
Hard Times (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 76,097 ratings — published 1854
Utilitarianism: For and Against (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 318 ratings — published 1973
On Liberty (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 44,620 ratings — published 1859
Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 310 ratings — published 2017
The Methods of Ethics (Hackett Classics)
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avg rating 3.96 — 188 ratings — published 1874
Reasons and Persons (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,973 ratings — published 1984
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,141,100 ratings — published 1866
What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 6,638 ratings — published 2022
Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,341 ratings — published 1972
Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 123 ratings — published 2020
Utilitarianism and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 418 ratings — published 1863
The Classical Utilitarians (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 136 ratings — published 2003
On Liberty / Utilitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 796 ratings — published 1859
Practical Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 3,609 ratings — published 1979
Animal Liberation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 11,528 ratings — published 1975
John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 157 ratings — published 2007
Outlines of the History of Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 21 ratings — published 1988
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 3,338 ratings — published 2013
Moral Theory: An Introduction (Elements of Philosophy)
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avg rating 3.79 — 154 ratings — published 2002
Utilitarianism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 18 ratings — published 2009
On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 318 ratings — published 2015
Utilitarianism and Beyond (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 37 ratings — published 1982
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, and Economics)
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avg rating 3.79 — 3,897 ratings — published 2015
Autobiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 1,113 ratings — published 1873
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 7,003 ratings — published 2009
The Hedonistic Imperative (ebook)
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avg rating 4.08 — 127 ratings — published 2015
Wrongness, Wisdom, and Wilderness: Toward a Libertarian Theory of Ethics and the Environment (Social Polit Thought (Dis))
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1997
Understanding Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.12 — 57 ratings — published 2003
Justice: A Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 227 ratings — published
Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good: From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 18 ratings — published
Fundamentals of Ethics (Not In A Series)
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avg rating 3.82 — 56 ratings — published 1983
The Case of the Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 284 ratings — published 1998
Hedonistic Utilitarianism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 1998
Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)
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avg rating 3.47 — 15 ratings — published 1995
An Introduction to Utilitarianism: From Theory to Practice (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.70 — 20 ratings — published
Understanding Utilitarianism (Understanding Movements in Modern Thought)
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avg rating 3.90 — 20 ratings — published 2007
On Liberty and The Subjection of Women (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 762 ratings — published 1869
Utilitarianism (Problems of Philosophy)
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avg rating 3.59 — 17 ratings — published 1995
Global Ethics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.48 — 21 ratings — published 2011
Utilitarianism: For and Against by J. J. C. Smart Bernard Williams(1973-01-01)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.42 — 1,170 ratings — published 2009
The Limits of Utilitarianism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1982
The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 12 ratings — published 1970
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 12 ratings — published 2005
Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 514 ratings — published 1995
The Foundations of Morality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 90 ratings — published 1964
The Panopticon Writings (Radical Thinkers)
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avg rating 3.46 — 362 ratings — published 1791
On Liberty and Other Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 847 ratings — published 1989
“It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life, and that unless the contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs. But I do not believe that such contemplation on the whole tends to happiness. It gives moments of delight, but these are outweighed by years of effort and depression.”
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“In contemporary culture, we are concerned that everything we do be useful for something. [...] we find ourselves in the land of half-baked pseudoscience like the “Mozart makes you smart” fad. The fact that Mozart’s fantastic play has value in itself is not sufficient because in order to justify financial and other kinds of support for the arts, we have to demonstrate that Mozart will raise a fetus’s IQ, which will make the fetus grow into a productive unit in the economy.”
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