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Bahir Dar University Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Political Science and International Studies
Bahir Dar University Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Political Science and International Studies
Bahir Dar University Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Political Science and International Studies
• It was for these reasons that he has been regarded by J.S. Mill as a
“progressive philosopher”, “the great benefactor (supporter) of
mankind”, “an enemy of the status quo and the greatest questioner
of things established”.
Defining Utilitarianism
• Utilitarianism as a school of thought dominated English political
thinking from the middle of the eighteenth century to the middle
of the nineteenth.