Utilitarianism: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Utilitarianism, credited to John Stuart Mill, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Utilitarianism, by John Stuart Mill. Read by D. E. Wittkower. John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is one of the most influential and widely-read philosophical defenses of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. It went through four editions during Mill's lifetime with minor additions and revisions. Although Mill includes discussions of utilitarian ethical principles in other works such as On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, Utilitarianism contains Mill's only major discussion of the fundamental grounds for utilitarian ethical theory. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Utilitarianism
• Author credits: John Stuart Mill
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 3:28:21

Catalogue topics

• Philosophy
• utilitarianism
• John Stuart Mill

Track guide

1. 01 - I: General Remarks — 13:00
2. 02 - II: What Utilitarianism Is, pt. 1 — 31:46
3. 03 - II: What Utilitarianism Is, pt. 2 — 33:58
4. 04 - III: Of the Ultimate Sanction of the Principle of Utility — 26:44
5. 05 - IV: Of what Sort of Proof the Principle of Utility is Susceptible — 22:38
6. 06 - V: On the Connection between Justice and Utility, pt. 1 — 30:49
7. 07 - V: On the Connection between Justice and Utility, pt. 2 — 49:30

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