...With liberty, we find again that Mill's liberalism is grounded on a utilitarian base. He appeals to "utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being." The famous principle that Mill enunciates in On Liberty is intended to safeguard the individual's freedom...

...say of his argument for the Principle of Liberty, "I forgo any advantage which could be derived to my argument from the idea of abstract right as a thing independent of utility" (On Liberty [Indianapolis: Hackett, 1978], p. 10). Still, "it must be utility in the largest sense,...

...Sidgwick). Mill's form of utilitarianism is indirect. In his book On Liberty (1988 [1859]: 70), he writes: "I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical...permanent interests of man as a progressive being." It has been argued that what Mill had in mind here (and in general) was utilitarianism as an axiological2...

...liberalism on a philosophy of history is beyond any doubt. In the Introduction to On Liberty he asserts that "I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical...permanent interests of man as a progressive being." 2 Here Mill himself affirms the dependency of his moral and political theory on a conception of progress...

...to show that its expected benefits outweigh its expected costs. But he is no simplistic Benthamite: 'I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical...permanent interests of man as a progressive being.' (p. 14) So whatever commitments Mill may incur elsewhere, here we needn't worry whether matters of...

...states 'I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions', he qualifies this by adding 'but it must be utility in the largest sense, grounded...permanent interests of man as a progressive being'. This addition stresses the difference from the simpler Benthamite approach: for Mill, the 'largest...

...arguments in defense of it appeal not to "abstract right. as a thing independent of utility" but to "utility in the largest sense. grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being" t2241. In other words. Mill contends that social and legal recognition of strong tpossibly even absolute1...

...of "self-interest" is understood, not as a primitive form of immediate gratification but instead as "utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being" (Mill 1956, 14), it is not too much of a reach to see this form of practical reason as formed by a...

...vet another look at the wording of the passage in On Liherty where Mill declares his allegiance to utility: 'I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions; hut it must he utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of a man as a progressive...

...Kapitel betont er, daß seine Beweisführung sich nur auf Nützlichkeitserwägungen beziehen wird: „I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all...it must be utility in the largest sense, grounded in the permanent interests of man as a progressive being" ,793 2) Nachdem Mill das zweite Kapitel mit...