Brink, David O. “Mill's Deliberative Utilitarianism.” In Philosophy & Public Affairs 21(1992): 67-103.

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Mill can be shown to reject hedonism consistently; instead, he defends (consistently) a conception of human happiness whose dominant component consists in the exercise of one’s rational capacities. This deliberative conception of happiness not only provides a better account of his claims in Utilitarianism but also explains how he can provide a strong defense of an individual right to certain liberties on utilitarian grounds. If so, these interpretive claims are important not just for our understanding of Mill, but because they outline a distinctive and resourceful form of utilitarianism.

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