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The Contemporary Evolution and Reform of Utilitarianism

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Authors:
  1. Shuyang Liu

    1. Institute of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era; Institute of National Governance Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China

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  • Is a comprehensive description of the development of utilitarianism
  • Describes the concept of public interest and distributive justice in the perspective of utilitarianism
  • Reviews the development of utilitarianism public policy ethics

Part of the book series: Interests Politics Series (IPS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Shuyang Liu
    Pages 1-27

  3. The Source of Contemporary Utilitarianism

    • Shuyang Liu
    Pages 29-69

  4. The Fundamental Schools of Contemporary Utilitarianism

    • Shuyang Liu
    Pages 71-86

  5. The Theoretical Evolution of Utilitarianism

    • Shuyang Liu
    Pages 87-125

  6. The Basic Trajectory of Theoretical Evolution: Balancing the Individual and the Community

    • Shuyang Liu
    Pages 127-174

  7. Development of Contemporary Utilitarianism

    • Shuyang Liu
    Pages 175-199

  8. The Evaluation of the Utilitarianism Evolution

    • Shuyang Liu
    Pages 201-214

  9. Conclusion

    • Shuyang Liu
    Pages 215-216

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 217-219
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About this book

This book is a monograph on contemporary utilitarianism, focusing on its evolving path and logic. It describes the evolution of utilitarianism from the classical model to the contemporary model and then summarizes the characteristics of contemporary utilitarianism, revealing its advantages and disadvantages. This book points out that the best characteristic of contemporary utilitarianism is to give up traditional view of individualism and take balanced attitude to the relationship between individual and community. The change makes the goal of contemporary utilitarianism from the pursuit of maximizing the sum of individual utilities to optimal social utility. Therefore, the contemporary utilitarianism gradually evolves a public philosophy with multiple interests structure, which provides a new way to solve the contradiction between personal interest and public interest.


Utilitarianism is still an important political philosophy in western society, but its existing defects actually make it difficult to have a transformative impact on western institutional structure and system. The target audience of this book are students and researchers majoring in politics and ethics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era; Institute of National Governance Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Shuyang Liu

About the author

Liu Shuyang, Assistant Professor at Peking University, engages in political theory research and national governance projects that focus on interest theory in politics. She held a Ph.D. in political science from Peking University in 2018 and served as Peking University Boya Postdoctor doing public policy research at Peking University from 2018 to 2020. She specializes in interest politics theory, producing abundant productions in this field.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Contemporary Evolution and Reform of Utilitarianism

  • Authors: Shuyang Liu

  • Series Title: Interests Politics Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7363-7

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Peking University Press 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-7362-0Published: 10 January 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-7365-1Due: 18 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-7363-7Published: 09 January 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2731-5940

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-5959

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 219

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Political Theory

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