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Ethics site covers the Political Ethics of Jeremy Bentham, described in "An
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation", published in
1789.Bentham lived 1748 - 1832, this page includes some of his Utilitarian ideals and
other items including his life that started as a child prodigy. At the age of 14 he
graduated from Oxford University. He believed that government should achive the
greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. He suggested the use of
felific calculus to measure pleasure (and its opposite, pain) according to anactions
likelihood to cause either, using scales to measure the resuktant intensity, duration,
certainty or uncertainty, propinquity or remoteness, fecundity, purity and extent.
He was unhappy as a lawyer and sought legal reform. He published the Westminister
Review. His preserved skeleton is somewhere in the University of London. His
Principle of Utility regarded as pain, pleasure as good. Individual decide on what creates
their own pleasure or pains. Utilitarianism measures its pproponent's actions
usefulness based on this concept of utility, attaining the greateast good for the greatest
number. If a government makes people happy or prevents unhappiness, it it helps people
achieve pleasure rather than pain, a government action reflects moral goodness. Moral evil
is the result of government action that creates more pain than pleasure. A concept
like asceticism is reverse utilitarianism. Actions based upon sympathy or empathy
are based on indivual views, not societal needs, and should not be the basis for making
political judgments. Normal motivations are to avoid pain and atttain pleasure,
thus,individual motives are always good.If you want to find out
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