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Classical Utilitarianism: Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are
20 Οκτ 2015 · Utilitarianism was an influential force in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England, and Bentham personally influenced the British legislature to adopt virtually all of his proposals.
Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. This philosophy of utilitarianism took for its "fundamental axiom" to be the notion that it is the greatest happiness.
Utilitarianism (from Lat. utilis: useful) is a tendency within normative ethics which has developed, principally in the English-speaking world, into a complex instrument for the empirical-rational justification of norms.
17 Μαρ 2015 · In his final years Bentham revisited aspects of his utilitarian philosophy and sought to define his place in the utilitarian tradition in the “Article on Utilitarianism”.
3 Νοε 2019 · Bentham created the utilitarian calculus to aid in the calculation of pleasure or pain. The individual action is to be judged on 4 elements namely, intensity, duration, certainty and propinquity (whether the pleasure will come soon or will it be a delayed pleasure).
25 Μαΐ 2024 · Bentham’s utilitarian theory is associated with the idea of equal consideration of interests; as long as total pleasure is maximised then it does not matter if that pleasure is experienced by royalty, presidents, siblings, children, friends or enemies.
