Jeremy Bentham (1748) Bentham was a British moral philosopher and legal theorist. A precocious student, he graduated from Oxford at age 15. In his writings, he became the earliest expounder of utilitarianism—the theory that the rightness or wrongness of an action is determined by its usefulness in bringing about the greatest happiness for all those affected by it. His work inspired much reform ...
Bentham, Jeremy The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
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