Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is a philosophical defense of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles in 1861 which were later compiled in to a single book and published in 1863. Mill's strives to define the concept of utilitarianism and reflects upon how and why it is the best theory of ethics. This version of the book is unique because: -it contains a brief biographical account of the author