Note 147 — Chapter XXIII · PROTAGORAS. (continued 2)

See, especially on this point, the brief but valuable Tract on Utilitarianism by Mr. John Stuart Mill. In page 16 of that work attention is called to the fact, that in Utilitarianism the standard is not the greatest happiness of the agent himself alone, but the greatest amount of happiness altogether. So that we cannot with exactness call the doctrine of Sokrates, in his conversation with Protagoras, “the theory of Utilitarianism,” as Mr. Mill calls it in page 1.