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CHAPTER ONE: UTILITARIANISM AND RIGHTS; James Rachels andUtilitarianism; Pig Utilitarianism; Utilitarianism and Privacy; Racial andGender Justice; Kant and Race; Racial Blindness; Mill on Race; Kant andWomen; Mill and Feminist Activism; The Historical Mill and the HistoricalKant; Kant and Animals; Kant and the Capacity for Rationality; Bentham andAnimals; Bentham and Paederasty; Classical Utilitarianism and Rights;Utilitarianism, Egalitarianism, and the Right to Equal Consideration; CHAPTERTWO: LIBERTARIANISM, CLASSICAL ECONOMICS, AND LIBERTY. Libertarianism andClassical Political Economy; Mill and Political Economy; Freedom andIndividual Self-Development; The Harm Principle; The Liberty Principle;Mill's Dialectic; Freedom of Expression and Individuality; The Utility ofExperiments in Living; The Final Formulation of the Liberty Principle;CHAPTER THREE: MILL'S MINIMALIST ETHICS; Edwards' Reading of Mill; A Point ofClarification; Philosophy and Fashion; The Difficulty with the MaximizingReading; The Minimalist Reading; Mill and Moral Extremism; Mill'sUtilitarianism and On Liberty; Utilitarianism and A System of Logic; ThePrinciple of Utility; Utility and Character Formation; CHAPTER FOUR: THERAWLSIAN OBJECTION; Rawls's Objection(s); Bentham and Rights; Gray and GreenUtilitarianism; Hospers's Two Mills; Punishing the Innocent; Slavery andIndividual Rights; The Virtues of Utilitarianism; The Reality BasedCommunity; Opportunity Costs; False Dichotomies; Positive and NegativeLiberty; Moral Objectivism; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.