Brown on Mill’s moral theory: A critical response

Dale E. Miller
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Dale E. Miller: Old Dominion University, USA, demiller@odu.edu

Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2010, vol. 9, issue 1, 47-66

Abstract: In this article, I argue that the reading of Mill that D.G. Brown presents in ‘Mill’s Moral Theory: Ongoing Revisionism’ is inconsistent with several key passages in Mill’s writings. I also show that a rule-utilitarian interpretation that is very close to the one developed by David Lyons is able to account for these passages without difficulty.

Keywords: Mill; utilitarianism; rule utilitarianism; David Lyons (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/1470594X09345857

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