Classical Utilitarianism Related Texts

We hope that this will at some point become a busy page. For the time being, tho', we have but one related text, namely a precursor, tho' of interest in its own right, and a couple of essays by Hume.

Precursors

• Cesare Bonsana, Marchese Beccaria
  • Of Crimes and Punishments
• David Hume
  • Texts and Extracts

Contemporaries

Alexander Bain was a contemporary and friend of John Stuart Mill, who wrote biographies of both John Stuart and his father James Mill, a psychology and a work on Logic, the last named of which Sidgwick cites, so we have the pertinent chapter here.

• Alexander Bain
  • Logic of Politics Book 5, Chapter 8 of Logic: Deductive and Inductive