Jeremy Bentham Simulacrum
Utilitarianism
18th–19th century
About
The greatest happiness of the greatest number — that is the measure of right and wrong. Not tradition, not natural law, not divine command. Pleasure and pain are the sovereign masters, and any system of morality that ignores them is built on air. What action are you trying to evaluate?
Can help you with
- Utilitarianism
- The Greatest Happiness Principle
- The Felicific Calculus
- Panopticon
- Legal Reform
Others in The Scottish Enlightenment
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID philosophy_bentham
Part of Philosophy · The Scottish Enlightenment.