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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.
11.1 INTRODUCTION . Utilitarianism is esse~~tially a British school of political theory. It consisted of a group of writers, politicians, administrators and social reformers. The most famous members of the group are Jeremy Bentham, James Mill and John Stuart Mill.
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.
15 Ιαν 2021 · The principle of utility was an appellative, at that time employed by me, as it had been by others, to designate that which, in a more perspicuous and instructive manner, may, as above, be designated by the name of the greatest happiness principle. ‘This principle (said Wedderburn) is a dangerous one.’.
In this book, he outlines his utilitarian principles and argues for a legal and political system based on the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people. Bentham’s concept of utilitarianism had a profound impact on moral philosophy, political theory, and legal practice.
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”.
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
