Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

DOI

10.1080/00455091.2017.1286822

Publication Title

Canadian Journal of Philosophy

Volume

47

Issue

5

Pages

674-693

Abstract

In the fourteenth paragraph of the fifth chapter of Utilitarianism, J. S. Mill writes that ‘We do not call anything wrong, unless we mean to imply that a person ought to be punished in some way or other for doing it; if not by law, by the opinion of his fellow-creatures; if not by opinion, by the reproaches of his own conscience.’ I criticize the attempts of three commentators who have recently presented act-utilitarian readings of Mill – Roger Crisp, David Brink, and Piers Norris Turner – to accommodate this passage.

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© 2017 Canadian Journal of Philosophy

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Original Publication Citation

Miller, D. E. (2017). Mill’s act-utilitarian interpreters on Utilitarianism chapter V paragraph 14. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 47(5), 674-693. https://doi.org/10.1080/00455091.2017.1286822

ORCID

0000-0002-8946-0040 (Miller)

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