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What Was Jeremy Bentham’s Theory?

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What Was Jeremy Bentham’s Theory? Jeremy Bentham was a philosopher, economist, jurist, and legal reformer and the founder of modern utilitarianism, an ethical theory holding that actions are morally right if they tend to promote happiness or pleasure (and morally wrong if they tend to promote unhappiness or pain) among all those affected by them.

What Is The Fecundity Of A Pain Or A Pleasure According To Bentham?

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What Is The Fecundity Of A Pain Or A Pleasure According To Bentham? In measuring pleasure and pain, Bentham introduces the following criteria: Its INTENSITY, DURATION, CERTAINTY (or UNCERTAINTY), and its NEARNESS (or FARNESS). He also includes its “fecundity” (more or less of the same will follow) and its “purity” (its pleasure won’t be followed