Jeremy Bentham — "The greatest good for the greatest number."
The greatest good for the greatest number.
The greatest good for the greatest number.
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"The more closely a man is confined, the more he is an object of compassion."
"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
"The value of a pleasure or pain considered by itself, will be greater or less, according to six circumstances: 1. Its intensity. 2. Its duration. 3. Its certainty or uncertainty. 4. Its propinquity or…"
"All inconsistencies, all surprises, have vanished: everything that has served to make the field of politics a labyrinth, has vanished. A clue to the interior of the labyrinth has been found : it is th…"
Often considered the summation of his philosophy, though the exact phrase was popularized by Francis Hutcheson before him, Bentham adopted and extensively used it.
Date: c. 1776 onwards
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