Bart Schultz is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Chicago.

“In this brilliant, engaging, and perceptive book, Bart Schultz breathes new life into the utilitarian project, illuminating its potential as a source of inspiration for living well in the modern world. A tour de force.”Roger Crisp, University of Oxford“This book provides an exciting new approach to one of the most important ethical theories – utilitarianism. Schultz uses critical race theory to resist and reshape Mill’s classical idea of liberalism. With his ‘Utilitarianism against Mill’ project, he shows that what we thought once to be a necessary value of Western thought has been shaped by colonialism and racism.”Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, The European Graduate School“[W]hile utilitarianism gives equal weight to each person’s happiness, regardless of race, gender or class, the three great classical utilitarian philosophers (Bentham, Mill and Henry Sidgwick) were apologists for British imperialism. It is this contradiction that Bart Schultz explores in Utilitarianism as a Way of Life. …The book’s most important message is one that everyone, utilitarian or not, should heed.”The Times Literary Supplement

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Decolonizing Utilitarianism1 Utilitarianism Now and Then2 Utilitarian Virtue?3 The Worst of the Best4 Different Places, Different Voices, Different VirtuesAppendixNotesIndex

Bart Schultz is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Chicago.

“In this brilliant, engaging, and perceptive book, Bart Schultz breathes new life into the utilitarian project, illuminating its potential as a source of inspiration for living well in the modern world. A tour de force.”Roger Crisp, University of Oxford“This book provides an exciting new approach to one of the most important ethical theories – utilitarianism. Schultz uses critical race theory to resist and reshape Mill’s classical idea of liberalism. With his ‘Utilitarianism against Mill’ project, he shows that what we thought once to be a necessary value of Western thought has been shaped by colonialism and racism.”Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, The European Graduate School“[W]hile utilitarianism gives equal weight to each person’s happiness, regardless of race, gender or class, the three great classical utilitarian philosophers (Bentham, Mill and Henry Sidgwick) were apologists for British imperialism. It is this contradiction that Bart Schultz explores in Utilitarianism as a Way of Life. …The book’s most important message is one that everyone, utilitarian or not, should heed.”The Times Literary Supplement

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Decolonizing Utilitarianism1 Utilitarianism Now and Then2 Utilitarian Virtue?3 The Worst of the Best4 Different Places, Different Voices, Different VirtuesAppendixNotesIndex