...such a crucial point in the argument. For earlv in the essay he writes lor should we sav hoasts?l: 'It is proper to state that I forego any advantage which could he derived to my argument from the idea of ahstract right, as a thing independent of utility' lOn Libenj,...

...des Utilitarismus, Bentham, so lehnt auch Mill eine naturrechtliche Begründung der Freiheit ab: „ It is proper to state that I forego any advantage...abstract right, as a thing independent of utility" .792 Er bekennt sich in On Liberty an zwei Stellen zum Utilitarismus: 1) Im ersten Kapitel betont er,...

...he made no appeal to religious doctrine or universal human rights. He wrote on the contrary that "1 forego any advantage which could be derived to my...abstract right, as a thing independent of utility. 1 regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions, but it must be utility in the largest...

...theory of natural rights but the very principle of utility on which the justification of liberty rests: "It is proper to state that I forego any advantage...abstract right, as a thing independent of utility". 127 However, it does seem that it is not quite this direct position that Mill really took to defend...

...Liberty a utilitarian text at all? It is true that Mill says, in the introductory chapter of the book, "It is proper to state that I forego any advantage...abstract right as a thing independent of utility." But, being Mill, he adds something, out of a sense that the light he wishes to bring to old and dark...

...importance to others. Mill further declares in the same paragraph of his essay that he will "forgo any advantage which could be derived to my argument...abstract right as a thing independent of utility." And yet, as is well known, Mill uses notions of rights prominently, both in chapter 5 of Utilitarianism...

...and Mill thought that appeal to abstract rights could not be independent of their appeal to utility. It is proper to state that I forego any advantage which could be desired to my argument from the idea of abstract right, as a thing independent of utility. I regard...

...Liberty, where he sets out the principles which inspire his doctrines: It is proper to state that I forgo any advantage which could be derived to my argument from the idea of abstract right, as a thing dependent on utility. I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions; but it must...

...axiom, a subordinate principle (II: ^|24), is confirmed by what he says in I: ^|11: he writes: "... I forego any advantage which could be derived to my...as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions." He adds the very crucial rider: ". . . but it must be utility in the largest sense, grounded on the...

...people choose for themselves, even if, on occasion, they get it wrong.'128 As Mill himself put it, 'It is proper to state that I forego any advantage...argument from the idea of abstract right as a thing of independent utility.... I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions; but it...