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Utilitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 25,240 ratings — published 1861
The Principles of Morals and Legislation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.44 — 655 ratings — published 1789
Hard Times (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 75,021 ratings — published 1854
Utilitarianism: For and Against (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 311 ratings — published 1973
On Liberty (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 43,543 ratings — published 1859
Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 303 ratings — published 2017
The Methods of Ethics (Hackett Classics)
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avg rating 3.95 — 184 ratings — published 1874
Reasons and Persons (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,914 ratings — published 1984
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,098,300 ratings — published 1866
What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 6,501 ratings — published 2022
Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,286 ratings — published 1972
Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 122 ratings — published 2020
Utilitarianism and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 404 ratings — published 1863
The Classical Utilitarians (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 130 ratings — published 2003
On Liberty / Utilitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 768 ratings — published 1859
Practical Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,553 ratings — published 1979
John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 155 ratings — published 2007
Outlines of the History of Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 21 ratings — published 1988
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 27,917 ratings — published 2007
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 3,308 ratings — published 2013
Moral Theory: An Introduction (Elements of Philosophy)
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avg rating 3.80 — 153 ratings — published 2002
Utilitarianism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed)
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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 — 307 ratings — published 2015
Utilitarianism and Beyond (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 36 ratings — published 1982
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,843 ratings — published 2015
Autobiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 1,106 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 — 6,918 ratings — published 2009
The Hedonistic Imperative (ebook)
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avg rating 4.12 — 120 ratings — published 2015
Animal Liberation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 11,371 ratings — published 1975
Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good: From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 17 ratings — published
Fundamentals of Ethics (Not In A Series)
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avg rating 3.87 — 55 ratings — published 1983
The Case of the Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 274 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 4.67 — 18 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 3.91 — 738 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 — 1,143 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 3.82 — 11 ratings — published 2005
Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 503 ratings — published 1995
The Foundations of Morality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 91 ratings — published 1964
The Panopticon Writings (Radical Thinkers)
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avg rating 3.45 — 352 ratings — published 1791
On Liberty and Other Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 844 ratings — published 1989
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 206 ratings — published 1793
A Theory of Justice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 13,647 ratings — published 1971
“There is nothing more pleasant than rejecting hedonism, there is nothing more useful than rejecting utilitarianism, there is nothing more scientific than rejecting scientism, and there is nothing more prosocial than rejecting collectivism. In other words, there is no better way to enter into a healthy relationship with instrumental values than to reject doctrines that try to make them into intrinsic values.”
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“One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wrong to inflict “unnecessary” suffering and death on animals, 99% of the suffering and death that we inflict on animals can be justified only by our pleasure, amusement, or convenience. For example, the best justification that we have for killing the billions of nonhumans that we eat every year is that we enjoy the taste of animal flesh and animal products. This is not an acceptable justification if we take seriously, as we purport to, that it is wrong to inflict unnecessary suffering or death on animals, and it illustrates the confused thinking that I characterize as our “moral schizophrenia” when it comes to nonhumans.
A follow-up question that I often get is: “What about vivisection? Surely that use of animals is not merely for our pleasure, is it?”
Vivisection, Part One: The “Necessity” of Vivisection | Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach”
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A follow-up question that I often get is: “What about vivisection? Surely that use of animals is not merely for our pleasure, is it?”
Vivisection, Part One: The “Necessity” of Vivisection | Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach”
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