Jeremy Bentham

 

 

A British philosopher, legal scientist, and social reformer.

 

Idea #3. Felicific calculus

 

To a person considered by himself, the value of a pleasure or

pain considered by itself, will be greater or less, according to the four

following circumstances:

1. Its intensity.

2. Its duration.

3. Its certainty or uncertainty.

4. Its propinquity or remoteness.

 

 

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

5. Its fecundity, or the chance it has of being followed by sensations of the same kind: that is, pleasures, if it be a pleasure: pains, if it be a pain.

6. Its purity, or the chance it has of not being followed by sensations of the opposite kind: that is, pains, if it be a pleasure: pleasures, if it be a pain.

 

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 #4. Diminishing utility

 

… if a poor man, who is ready to die with hunger, steal a loaf of bread, it is a less explicit sign of depravity, than if a rich man were to commit a theft to the same amount…

 

 

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

 

 

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