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Making Sense of Morality: Bentham, Mill, and Utilitarianism - R. Scott Smith, PhD
Introduction After Kant, the next major thinkers in the Enlightenment were the utilitarians. Two exemplars were Jeremy Bentham (d. 1832) and John Stuart Mill (d. 1873). On utilitarianism, no morals are intrinsically right or wrong, or good or bad. Following the trend we’ve seen, they thought pleasures and pains, and benefits and harms, could be … Continue reading Making Sense of Morality: Bentham, Mill, and Utilitarianism
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