Jeremy Bentham

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  • Jeremy Bentham
    • consequentalist
    • the greatest good for the greatest  number
    • focused on the individual and their actions alone
    • quantitative through use of the Hedonic Calculus
    • act utilitarianism
    • in search of the maximisation of happiness
    • 1748-1832
    • opposed slavery, the death penalty and corporal punishment
    • supported equal rights for women, the right to divorce and sought decriminalisation of male homosexual acts
    • wrote 'Of Laws in General'
    • strict applications of his principles

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