Jeremy Bentham#Jeremy
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#Jeremy
Jeremy Bentham · 1748–1832
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Who this is
“He spent sixty years asking one question of everything — does it add to happiness or to misery? — and his skeleton, dressed in his own clothes, still sits in a London university making the point.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“The only test of any law, institution, or action is whether it increases pleasure and decreases pain — for everyone affected, counted equally.”
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