Utilitarianism by Mill, First Edition (24 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Slight bowing of lower corner of front cover outward away from book block, writing in pencil, and underlining. This collection traces the creation and development of a system of ethics that has had an enduring influence on moral philosophy and legislative policy. One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests in how well it promotes the welfare of those affected by it, aiming for "the greatest happiness of the greatest number." Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was the movement's founder, as much a social reformer as a philosopher. His greatest interpreter, John Stuart Mill (1806-73), set out to humanize Bentham's pragmatic Utilitarianism by balancing the claims of reason and the imagination, individuality and social well-being in essays such as "Bentham," "Coleridge" and, above all, Utilitarianism. Setting the central texts in their historical and biographical context, Alan Ryan's anthology provides the perfect introduction to an enormously significant philosophical movement.

paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

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Soft Cover/Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Richard L. Listenberger (Cover Design) (illustrator). Copyright © 1979. 63 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Occassional pencil markings on text.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Bantam Classic (August 1961) , clean copy with square binding, supple pages, tanning at open edges, some wear. Name inside cover. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 464 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. tiny signature of previous owner on fep.

Hardccover. Condition: Very Good=. Circa 1950. 393pp. Blue cloth with gold stamped spine. Decorated endpapers. Slight general wear, 3 small holes in cloth on spine. Private bookplate on front endpaper. Photos sent on request. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

First American edition. 8vo. [lii], 547 pp. Softcover binding, pictorial cover, very good condition.(101999). Oxford World's Classics. Edited with an introduction and notes by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. The Everyman's Library edition. Near fine, without dust jacket, as issued. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Softcover. First Edition Thus; Fourteenth Printing. Near Fine in wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. pp.lxv, 172 pages, a Fine hardback in a very good minus dust-jacket [1857150813]. NOT FROM A LIBRARY and indeed completely clean from any former owner makings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 136, 152 Pp. Brown Cloth Gilt, Green Endpapers."Belford, Clarke & Co." And Mdccclxxix Date On Title Page, Printers Information Of Donohue And Henneberry On Copyright Page, No Copyright Notice. Poorly Made Book Consisting Of "Socialism" And "Utilitarianism" Bound Together, This Being The First Hardcover Printing Of The "Socialism" Essay / Book, Extracted From The Fortnightly Review Together With The Preface By Helen Taylor Dated January 1879; Also The First Printing Of These Two Works Together. Scarce. Cloth Clean, Spine Very Slightly Darkened, With Wear At Edges, Just Beginning To Fray At Corners, Cover Gilt Brilliant But Beginning To Redden, Spine Gilt Weaker But Clear And Complete. Hinges Tight But Binding Cracked Before Title Page Of Utilitarianism, Indicating Perhaps The Books Were Perhaps First Printed Separately Before Being Bound Together, But No Separate Publication Of "Socialism" Reported In Worldcat. Former Owner's Information On Front Endpaper (W. D. Grant, University College, Toronto 1882).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. ). Preliminary Notice written by Helen Taylor and dated January 1879, Chicago: Belfords, Clarke, 1879. Original brown cloth. First Book Printing of Socialism, which was Reprinted from the Fortnightly Review and first publication of these two works together. Wear at head and foot of spine with slight loss, very small chip on front free endpaper, Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1979 first edition hardback in very good condition. This is the first hardcover edition of 'Socialism', the work having appeared previously only in 'The Fortnightly review'. It is here published together with 'Utilitarianism'. Slight mottling to end papers. No owners marks nor other marks, clean and bright, tight binding. The brown cloth boards have rubbing to edges and quite heavy rubbing to rear, but gilt titling is still clear to both front and spine. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good+. Belfords, Clarke & Co., Chicago, IL 1879. First Edition. 1st Printing. 136 + 152 pages. Brown cloth binding, gold lettering. Moderate general wear. Spine ends frayed. Has bookplates. Previous owner name. Size: 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Socialism was printed from the 'Fortnightly Review' and was also printed with Utilitarianism. Philosophy/Ethics Social Sciences Business::Economics 6019.

Orig. purple dot-&-line grained cloth cloth; sl. marked with imperceptible repairs. Signature of M. Creighton, Merton College, with bookplate of Mandell Creighton designed by H. Harris Brown, later ownership signature of M. Packer 1937. v.g. Utilitarianism first appeared in Fraser's Magazine in 1861. The first edition in (iv), 95pp. was published by Parker, Son & Bourn in 1863; this Longman second edition is in (iv), 96pp. It reached the fifteenth edition in 1907. One of the most influential books of the nineteenth century, Mill building on the theory of the greatest good for the greatest number established by Bentham. Mandell Creighton, 1843-1901, author of The History of the Papacy, Anglican priest and later bishop who was at Merton College, Oxford 1862-66. 'He was undoubtedly the ablest man in the College at the time. His philosophical work. was always done carefully and thoroughly, and in it he gave proof of a well-balanced judgement and considerable critical power. John Stuart Mill was then a predominant influence in Oxford, an influence against which Creighton rebelled. Under Dr. Caird's guidance he imbibed Kant's philosophy with much satisfaction, and also learnt something of Hegel. He developed what he called a theory of the unity of contradictories, about which his friends used to chaff him, but which he asserted helped to explain many difficulties.' Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton, 1906.

Kjøbenhavn (Copenhagen), Gyldendal, 1872. 8vo. Nice contemporary brown half calf with gilt spine. Capitals and corners worn and spine with some worn patches. Occasional brownspotting. Old owner's names to front end-papers. (2), VIII, 85, (1) pp. Scarce first edition of the first Danish translation of Mill?s seminal ?Utilitarianism?, translated by the great Georg Brandes. Mill?s ?Utilitarianism? constitutes a classic within the field of moral and political thought and is considered "the most influential philosophical articulation of a liberal humanistic morality that was produced in the nineteenth century." (Encycl. Of Philosophy). Originally published as a series of three separate articles in 1861, it was collected and printed as a single work under the canonical title in 1863. This publication is now considered the classic exposition and defense of Utilitarianism in ethics, a revolution within moral philosophy. The work was translated into Danish by the immensely influential literary critic Georg Brandes, by many considered the greatest intellectual of his time. Brandes played a key role in introducing especially German and British thought to Scandinavia, most notably the works by such thinkers as Darwin and Nietzsche. He is also the first to translate Mill?s works and make them accessible to a Scandinavian readership. His translation of ?Utilitarianism? appeared in 1872 and was responsible for spreading the utilitarian philosophy to a wider audience in the North. The idea of Utilitarianism became immensely influential in Scandinavia. It inspired, for instance, Haralds Høffdig (1843-1931) to formulate the welfare principle, contributing to the formation of the welfare state that the Scandinavian countries are so famous for.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1863. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, brown coated endpapers; [4],95,[1],4pp. Cloth margins rubbed and a bit worn at spine ends and corners with smallish chip at spine crown, contemporary ownership signature of a William Eyre to front free endpaper verso and later signature of a W.D. Stainer at head of title page. Still an About Very Good, unsophisticated copy of this fragile volume, contents clean and sound. The author's succinct classic defense of utilitarian ethical theory, originally serialized in three parts in "Fraser's Magazine." Mill explains the controversy around the concept of utilitarianism as being in direct opposition to pleasure and happiness, poking holes in "the ultimate sanction of the principle of utility" before concluding with the chapter on "the only real difficulty" of Utilitarianism, "On the Connexion Between Justice and Utility.".

First edition in Japanese of Mill's classic exposition of his philosophy, as translated by his primary champion in Japan. Following the Meiji Restoration and the end of Japanese isolationism, the new government sponsored the translation of many Occidental texts as tools for understanding Western geopolitical superiority. Many of those engaged in this programme took 19th-century England - rather than 18th-century France - as their model for a fully enlightened state. Millian utilitarianism, moreover, with its ultimate emphasis on the collective interests of society was seen to be more directly palatable to minds trained on Confucianism than French offerings from the Age of Enlightenment. This translation was undertaken by Nishi Amane (1829-1897), a philosopher then teaching at Kaieisho College in Tokyo. 2 vols, octavo. Publisher's red ink seal on title page as issued; title page printed on red paper and laid down onto inner front wrapper of vol. I, text in Japanese. Original yellow paper wrappers, original white thread fukuro-toji binding, spine ends capped with green cloth, original printed paper labels on front wrappers. Housed in modern blue cloth folding case. Light rubbing and creasing, contents generally fresh: a very good copy indeed.

First edition in book form. 8vo. 95, [1] pp. Contemporary polished calf, spine with five raised bands outlined in gilt, second and third panels lettered in gilt on red and brown morocco labels,  the rest with gilt fleurons, covers with gilt roll-tool borders, marbled endpapers, marbled edges (modern bookplate of 'Alexander Stone' to front free endpaper, foxing to front and rear flyleaves, contents otherwise generally clean and fresh; just a hint of faint surface wear to covers, a fine copy). London, Parkers, Son, and Bourn. 1863. [bound after:] MILL (John Stuart). Considerations on Representative Government. Second edition. 8vo. viii, 347, [1] pp. London, Parker, Son, and Bourn. [and:] MILL (John Stuart). Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform. Second edition. 8vo. 58 pp. London, John W. Parker and Son. One of the great classics of political philosophy and the clearest statement of the utilitarian 'greatest happiness' principle that actions are right in proportion to how much happiness they promote, attractively bound after two second editions of Mill's political writings.  Originally printed across three issues of Fraser's Magazine in 1861, Mill's Utilitarianism "attempted to reaffirm the authority of Bentham's formula by filling in the gap between the pleasure seeking of the individual and the greatest happiness of the greatest number. For if man is moved only by the pursuit of personal pleasure or the fear of personal pain: and if, as Bentham emphatically claimed, 'quality of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry', how could the existence of the higher virtues be accounted for, let alone encouraged? . The only way out was for Mill to say there was, after all, a difference in quality of pleasures; that the happiness derived from goodness outweighed all others, even life itself, and that the really virtuous man was also the most discriminating in his selfishness" (Packe, The Life of John Stuart Mill, p. 420f). MacMinn, Hainds & McCrimmon, Bibliography of the Published Writings of John Stuart Mill, p. 93.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 95 pp. + 4 [ads]. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original plum cloth, with spine lettered in gilt, neatly rebacked with loss to several gilt letters. Small, previous owner name written on title page. Contents mildly toned with light, sporadic foxing. "Small books are so much more read than large ones that it is an advantage when one's matter will go into a small space." -John Stuart Mill in a letter to a friend [Collected Works XV, p. 645]. A slim volume by design that sparked a revolution within moral philosophy, comprised of an essay in three articles that first appeared in Fraser's Magazine two years earlier. It is now generally regarded as one of the most significant works of the 19th century in any field and continues to be widely read.

2. Aufl. 2 Bll., 96 S. Leinenbd. der Zeit m. goldgeprägt. Rt. - Englischer Text. - Vorderdeckel tls. etwas verblasst, sonst sehr gutes Ex. * Frühe Ausgabe des bedeutenden Werkes Mills zur Moralphilosphie (die erste Ausgabe erschien 1861. 1.