Epicurus and Epicureanism
1. The people are on their own account in this life. Gods have their own business, the man is mortal, and there is no life after death.
2. Pleasure is the one reasonable purpose of life. Pleasure is good, suffering is bad.
3. Spiritual pleasure is higher than material one because it reduces dependency from the external world.
Epicurus
342-270 B.C.
Storchevoy M. A. Corporate Social Responsibility. 2013 Topic 2 (1) Normative Analysis: Utilitarianism
Early History of Utilitarianism Jeremy Bentham
A British philosopher, legal scientist, and social reformer.
Idea #1. Pleasure and pain
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Storchevoy M. A. Corporate Social Responsibility. 2013 Topic 2 (1) Normative Analysis: Utilitarianism
Early History of Utilitarianism
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