Utilitarianism

By: John Stuart Mill

Narrated by: Fleet Cooper

This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder. The speech is significant both because its topic remains timely and because its arguments illustrate the applicability of the principle of utility to questions of large-scale social policy.

Public Domain (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Narration had some flaws

Decent content, but not exactly spectate. The narrator should have done a second take of a few lines where he choked a bit. And someone should have told him the author's name is Mill, not Mills 😂

Good book bad narrator.

This audio book is a perfect example of how good book can be ruined by a bad narrator. The narrators voice was did not fit the narrative and came across as unsettling and uncomfortable.

Speaker was bad

The book is great but the speaker too often makes high and low pitches making it hard to hear him while driving

Excellent!!!

All around insightful. Not a sentence in this book did I find to be inessential. Written by a master craftsman of words with an intellect of precision and mind for making connections.

A dramatic reading of JSM's 'Utilitarianism'

Since I hadn't read Mill since college, I figured it was high time to revisit his famous ethical essay on, and defense of, social utility, justice and the greatest-happiness principle. I remember loving the clarity and simplicity of Mill's arguments when I was first exposed to this essay in college, and the central ideas of utilitarianism still resonate with me 15 years later.

Fleet Cooper's narration was good, but there were times when he managed to make JSM seem snarky. It was almost a dramatic reading of Utilitarianism. Not what I expected, but since it didn't cause me actual harm or pain, I'm not sure his reading violated an actual "standard of narration morality".