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Jeremy Bentham
Books by Jeremy Bentham
Influence of Natural Religion on the Temporal Happiness of Mankind
Introduction by Delos B. Mckown
This little-known work by Jeremy Bentham, the great English philosopher and originator of utilitarianism, was considered so controversial when it was first published in 1822 that Bentham used the pseudonym of "Philip Beauchamp." The focus of this critical treatise is "natural religion," a school ...
Principles of Morals and Legislation
Jeremy Bentham's work on The Principles of Morals and Legislation emerges from its historic roots in hedonism and teleology as a scientific attempt to assess the moral content of human action by focusing on its results or consequences. Proceeding from the assumption that human beings desire pleas...