Benthamism

[benθәmizәm]

Definition

(n.) That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.

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Definition

n. a name applied to the social and political doctrines of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) whose leading principle is the doctrine of utility that happiness is identical with pleasure summed up in Priestley's famous phrase 'the greatest happiness of the greatest number.'

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