Impact Of Utilitarianism On Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham is considered the father of militarism because he’s the one who gives a name and brings it together and consolidates it in a systematic way. Bentham himself, his primary interest was in forming the British legal system because they have a lot of punishment that should fit the crime. There were a lot of punishment that did not fit the crime, they were very arbitrarily applied or they were too severe they didn’t pay off in good consequences. That’s when he taught utilitarianism is a moral theory, like all moral theories. It has support effects, it has to tell what the good is, what the bad is, how we should make our decision, how we should evaluate choices, policies, institution things like that. It has to give us some sort of …show more content…
They have interesting design features to them, but what is the most important thing you think about the shoes? Do they actually fit me? Durability, are they going to last? It is a pleasure, the benefit to me going to continue over time, so comfort is the lack of pain more than pleasure; overall it’s just produces greater pleasure for you to look at. Principle of utility is saying that’s the sort of thing we want to pay attention when we’re making moral decisions. What we ought to do is trying to maximize pleasure minimize pain, and not just for ourselves but for all persons effective, and something that go along with this is that everybody’s pleasure or pain should count as much as everybody else’s. So it shouldn’t matter whether I’m friend with somebody, what I’m deciding about who I want to benefit of, who I want to harm, and how I want to balance these things out and I shouldn’t make myself count for more than other people. So if I with a little bit of discomfort on my part can make another person completely happy then I should do that, and that’s what the principle of utility would say I like to do. Utility is the tendency to lead to pleasure on what you lead to a removal or