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1. www.utilitarianism.net › jeremy-benthamJeremy Bentham | Utilitarianism.net

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   Learn about Jeremy Bentham, the founder of classical utilitarianism, who advocated for the principle of utility in law, government and ethics. Explore his life, works, quotes and views on animal welfare, homosexuality, democracy and more.

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3. plato.stanford.edu › entries › benthamJeremy Bentham - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Mar 17, 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. Earlier moralists had enunciated several of the core ideas and characteristic terminology of utilitarian philosophy, most notably John Gay, Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Claude ...

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   Apr 16, 2024 · Jeremy Bentham was a philosopher, economist, jurist, and legal reformer and the founder of modern utilitarianism, an ethical theory holding that actions are morally right if they tend to promote happiness or pleasure (and morally wrong if they tend to promote unhappiness or pain) among all those affected by them.

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   Mar 27, 2009 · Though the first systematic account of utilitarianism was developed by Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), the core insight motivating the theory occurred much earlier. That insight is that morally appropriate behavior will not harm others, but instead increase happiness or ‘utility.’

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   Mar 29, 2024 · Utilitarianism is a normative ethical theory that evaluates actions by their consequences for happiness or pleasure. Learn about its history, concepts, methodologies, criticisms, and variations from Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and others.

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   Jeremy Bentham (/ ˈ b ɛ n θ ə m /; 4 February 1747/8 O.S. [15 February 1748 N.S.] – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.

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   Feb 15, 2024 · Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was an English philosopher and liberal social reformer best known as the founder of utilitarianism based on the greatest happiness principle, that is, rationally judging the success of a law by considering how many people it makes happy.

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    What is Bentham's principle of utilitarian ethics?

    • According to Bentham himself, it was in 1769 he came upon “the principle of utility”, inspired by the writings of Hume, Priestley, Helvétius and Beccaria. This is the principle at the foundation of utilitarian ethics, as it states that any action is right insofar as it increases happiness, and wrong insofar as it increases pain.

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    Why is Bentham considered the father of utilitarianism?

    • Bentham today is considered as the "Father of Utilitarianism". His ambition in life was to create a "Pannomion", a complete utilitarian code of law. He not only proposed many legal and social reforms, but also expounded an underlying moral principle on which they should be based.

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    What did Bentham say about the utility principle?

    • In the 1829 “Article on Utilitarianism” Bentham pointed to two later “improvements” to his understanding of the utility principle—the “disappointment-prevention principle” and the “greatest happiness principle” (a substitute for the “greatest happiness of the greatest number” formula).

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    How did Bentham differ from Mill's View of utilitarianism?

    • Mill's version of utilitarianism differed from Bentham's also in that he placed weight on the effectiveness of internal sanctions — emotions like guilt and remorse which serve to regulate our actions. This is an off-shoot of the different view of human nature adopted by Mill.

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