ABSTRACT
From the time I first read him, as an undergraduate, I have always felt a strong affinity to John Stuart Mill, both to his values, and to his clear, no-nonsense style of writing. But it was not until much later in life, when Roger Crisp, in his contribution to Dale Jamieson’s volume Singer and His Critics, compared some of my views with those of Mill, that I began to think more explictly about the parallels. (Needless to say, I am not comparing the significance of my own philosophical contributions to those of one of the great founding fathers of the utilitarian tradition.)
