This is the Table Of
Contents (TOC) of this html-edition of Mill's Utilitarianism.
The paper text I presuppose is H.B. Acton's
1972-edition of "Utilitarianism". This paper edition I used for my notes,
but I did not compare it carefully with the html-version I use. The full
reference is:
John Stuart Mill:
Utilitarianism, On Liberty and Considerations on Representative
Government Edited by H.B. Acton (ISBN 0 460 11482 4).
This is in Everyman's
Library, with selections from additional texts by Mill, and is a good
buy if you are interested in Mill at all. (It seems also a good edition,
except for one glitch:
[21] to
Chapter V.
The texts that follow have
many links, and come all with a group of usually four arrows at the beginning
and the end of each text, that look thus:
These have in general the following effect when clicked:
- previous file
- Table of Contents
- Notes or Text associated with the file
- next file
Every file of Mill's text
links to a file with my notes, the links to which are between square
brackets as in "[1]". In order to allow the reader to
read my notes independently, they all start with a quotation in blue of
the passage they annotate, and that generally ends with the link to the
note in Mill's text.
In contrast, Mill's own
notes are indicated by a "M" and are made superscript, like so[M1].
Because the passages I
annotate are repeated in my Notes, it is possible to read the Notes
without reading the Text that is annotated. However, each file of
Notes has at its beginning a link to the Text it annotates, and likewise
that Text has at its beginning a link to my Notes to it, and as
explained each Note also has a link to the Text and the place is is
quoted from
Those who download my
edition of Mill's "Utilitarianism" and my notes should realize that the
links to and from the notes are retained only if they are placed in
directory-structures of the following form:
"/Utilitarianism/" - that includes Mill's textfiles and the TOC
"/Utilitarianism/Notes/" - that includes my
textfiles of notes
How this directory and its
subdirectory are otherwise attached to a filesystem on the computer you
use is irrelevant, but the above is required for having the many links
work when reading off line.
Also, it may be remarked
that the reading of my Notes may be preferable for many to the
reading of Mill's text, because my Notes very likely contain all or most
of the best bits of Mill's text in quotation, while Mill's text, both in
the html I found and the paper version I use, is very sparse with
interlineation, while the text contains many long sentences and
arguments crammed in very long uninterlined paragraphs.
It should also be
mentioned that there two related texts concerned with the
foundations of morals on my site with my comments, namely
Hume's
Enquiry
concerning the Principles of Morals, and Edward's "The
Logic of Moral Discourse", that are also well worth reading.
I have
uploaded
my Notes to "Utilitarianism"
on August 22, 2007, after having uploaded my html-edition of Mill's text
in December 2006. My Notes are a first version and need some links and
corrections, that will be made later, depending on my health.
Another relevant set of
files concerned with ethics on my site is
Aristotle's
Nicomachean Ethics, in W.D. Ross's translation, my html-edition, and
with my notes.
Maarten Maartensz
December 16, 2006 &
August 22, 2007
(Last edited:
17 Nov 2009)