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Compassionate Utilitarianism: The Unknown Bentham Revealed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2002

AMNON GOLDWORTH
Affiliation:
Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California

Extract

Unlike the compassionate conservatism of George Bush, Compassionate Utilitarianism is not a confusing concept. Nor is it a newly minted version of Utilitarianism given that it is embedded in the writings of Jeremy Bentham, writings that have come to light only with the Oxford University Press publication of his Deontology in 1983 as edited by me. Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (IPML) expresses the standard interpretation of Hedonistic Utilitarianism. What he said in Deontology serves as the basis of Compassionate Utilitarianism.

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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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