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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