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Jeremy Bentham was a legal theorist and reformer who developed the philosophy of utilitarianism. He believed that the guiding principle should be to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. Happiness is determined by a quantitative measurement of pleasure over pain. Bentham developed a "felicific calculus" to measure pleasure, pain, and overall happiness. John Stuart Mill later refined utilitarianism by arguing happiness has a qualitative aspect and some pleasures are more refined and valuable than others, not
- Author
- Ha Lo
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- EN