Titlebook: Early Utilitarians; Lives and Ideals Ken Binmore Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Spri

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Beccaria,ries out against the brutality of the system in place all over Europe in his time|secret accusations,arbitrary verdicts, confessions obtained under torture, children hung for minor of-fences, compassion only for the rich and well-connected. Beccaria argues that a rational analysis should reject the

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Godwin,he shoes of his mentor Pangloss in preaching that all can be for the best in this best of all possible worlds.What is interesting about Godwin is his seeming inability to learn that the utopian principles on which he mulishly organized his own ramshackle life do not work, so that he was forced furth

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Bentham,John Stuart Mill. The unspoken implication is that the eccentric Bentham may have hit upon the phrase he greatest happiness for the greatest number", but it was Mill who was the serious thinker who provided utilitarianism with sound intellectual foundations.

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Harsanyi,thought that this achievement alone would have been enough to gain the respect of the philosophical community, but Harsanyi is largely ignored by orthodox philosophers,in spite of his providing coherent answers to the utilitarian questions left hanging in the air by Jeremy Bentham.

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Stetig verstellbare Ventile (Stetigventile),phers to neglect certain issues in favor of others. Why, for example, was the naturalism of ancient Greeks like Democritus and Epicurus left on a back burner for two thousand years until reinvented by enlightenment thinkers, of whom Hutcheson and Hume are examples in this book? Why are the various p

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Gerhard Bauer,Mathias Niebergallmmendations is never de_ned in the precise way that modern utilitarians think essential. A lec- ture that Plato gave at the Academy he founded in ancient Athens is perhaps the best exemplar of the ancient attitude. The lecture apparently caused consternation among the students for its claim that the