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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
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.
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.
17 Μαρ 2015 · Jeremy Bentham, jurist and political reformer, is the philosopher whose name is most closely associated with the foundational era of the modern utilitarian tradition.
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.
Happiness and Utility: Jeremy Bentham’s Equation. J. H. BURNS. University College London. Doubts about the origin of Bentham’s formula, ‘the greatest happiness of the greatest number’, were resolved by Robert Shackleton thirty years ago. Uncertainty has persisted on at least two points.
