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.
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…
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Storchevoy M. A. Corporate Social Responsibility. 2013 Topic 2 (1) Normative Analysis: Utilitarianism
2.2. Strong Version of
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3. Its certainty or uncertainty.
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789
