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Books on: bentham utilitarian

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Journal Articles on: bentham utilitarian

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Magazine Articles on: bentham utilitarian

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Newspaper Articles on: bentham utilitarian

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    The Judges Are Stealing Our Freedom
    Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), July 25, 2010
    Subjects: 
    Judges--Political activity, Judges--Political aspects
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...There is in Britain a noble tradition of scepticism towards human rights that stretches back to the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who described them as nonsense upon stilts. According to this tradition, which has united both Left...
     
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    Ethics and the Next Century's Navy
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 28, 1999
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...essay links Tailhook with the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill and develops...the midshipman espouses the utilitarian concept of a pleasure vs...seem irrelevant. And the utilitarian concept, discussed in the...
     
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    We Have So Much Health Information, but How Much Freedom to Use It?
    Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 10, 2005
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...described by the philosophies of Bentham and Mill. Currently in our...justiciary can see the enormous utilitarian benefit from banning smoking...responsibilities for others and the utilitarian benefits for the population...modified foods where even the utilitarian approach should urge caution...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: bentham utilitarian

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    Bentham, Jeremy
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    BENTHAM, JEREMY 1748 1832, English...influence of Helvetius and won Bentham recognition throughout the...his thorough application of utilitarian principles to economics...owe much to the influence of Bentham and his disciples. See his...
     
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    Laissez-Faire
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...foreign commerce to protect certain home industries. In the hands of Jeremy Bentham the doctrine of laissez-faire became a philosophy of individualism and of utilitarian ethics, and John Stuart Mill brought it to what was probably its highest...
     
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    Mill, James
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...editing periodicals. He met Jeremy Bentham c.1808 and became an ardent advocate...furnished a psychological basis for utilitarian ethics by expanding the associationism...are otherwise difficult to explain on utilitarian grounds, and also as the origin of...
     
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    Mill, John Stuart
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the doctrines of his father and his fathers mentor, Jeremy Bentham , but he sought to temper them with humanitarianism. At times...religion of humanity. In addition he introduced into the utilitarian calculus of pleasure a qualitative principle that goes far...
     
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    HelvÉtius, Claude Adrien
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...intellectual activity have their beginning in sensation. In ethics a utilitarian, he judged the good in terms of self-satisfaction and regarded...self-interest as the sole motive for action. Both Jeremy Bentham and James Mill acknowledge his influence. Another book...
     

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