Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is a philosophical
defense of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of
three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were
collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. It went through four editions
during Mill's lifetime with minor additions and revisions.

Although Mill includes discussions of utilitarian ethical principles in other
works such as On Liberty and The Subjection of Women,
Utilitarianism contains Mill's only major discussion of the fundamental
grounds for utilitarian ethical theory.

-- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.