Tyler Cowen recommends Mill’s essays on Bentham and Coleridge as among the best essays ever written, a great introduction to Mill’s thought, and“the most sophisticated perspective on a form of neo-Benthamism today, namely the effective altruism as a movement”. I found the key ideas familiar (partly because Tyler is constantly recommending them), but I was glad to read them from the man himself. According to Mill, Bentham’s chief contribution was to exemplify and spread the idea that...
