Utilitarianism —— and the 1868 Speech on Capital Punishment

----- 功利主义：1868年关于死刑的演讲

ISBN: 9780872206052 出版年：2002 页码：88 John Stuart Mill George Sher Hackett Publishing

This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder. The speech is significant both because its topic remains timely and because its arguments illustrate the applicability of the principle of utility to questions of large-scale social policy.