Order Description
Required reading:
1. Class Notes 1
2. Bentham, Jeremy (1789), Chapters 1 & 2 of Principles of Morals and Legislation.
AVAILABLE ONLINE: https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/authors/bentham.html
3. MacKinnon on Utilitarianism
4. Class Notes 2
5. Mill, John Stuart (1863), Utilitarianism, excerpts from Chapter 2 and Chapter 4.
AVAILABLE ONLINE: https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/authors/mill.html READ
CHAPTER 2, PAGES 4-8 and ALL OF CHAPTER 4.
Notes on resources and supplementary reading:
I also recommend, for each topic we cover, looking it up on either, or both, of the
following online encyclopedias: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)
https://plato.stanford.edu/ and the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP)
https://www.iep.utm.edu/
Also very useful is the following philosophy website:
https://www.philosophypages.com/index.htm – this site has a dictionary, study guides,
history, individual philosophers as well as notes on logic and writing philosophy essays
(in study guide section).

Order Description
Required reading:
1. Class Notes 1
2. Bentham, Jeremy (1789), Chapters 1 & 2 of Principles of Morals and Legislation.
AVAILABLE ONLINE: https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/authors/bentham.html
3. MacKinnon on Utilitarianism
4. Class Notes 2
5. Mill, John Stuart (1863), Utilitarianism, excerpts from Chapter 2 and Chapter 4.
AVAILABLE ONLINE: https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/authors/mill.html READ
CHAPTER 2, PAGES 4-8 and ALL OF CHAPTER 4.
Notes on resources and supplementary reading:
I also recommend, for each topic we cover, looking it up on either, or both, of the
following online encyclopedias: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)
https://plato.stanford.edu/ and the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP)
https://www.iep.utm.edu/
Also very useful is the following philosophy website:
https://www.philosophypages.com/index.htm – this site has a dictionary, study guides,
history, individual philosophers as well as notes on logic and writing philosophy essays
(in study guide section).