Utilitarianism - Oxford Reference
2022-1-30 · An essay by J. S. Mill, first published in a series of articles in Fraser's Magazine in 1861, in book form 1863. The term ‘utilitarian’ was first adopted by Mill in 1823, from Galt's Annals of the Parish. In this work, Mill, while accepting the Benthamite principle (see Bentham) that Utility, or the greatest happiness of the greatest number, is the foundation of morals, departs