1864 Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government.

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

First edition.

Very scarce work.

Bound in the publisher's cloth.

Written anonymously, this work is most often attributed to Charles Tennant, a philosopher, politician and founder of the National Colonisation Society.

This work offers a critique of John Stuart Mill's 'Utilitarianism', which was published the previous year.

Tennant suggests that happiness does not consist wholly in utility, but in conformity to Christianity and divine will. Despite this, Tennant argues that we should advocate utility, applying this notion to the modern problems of government, foreign policy, taxation and other aspects of politics.