Benthamism / Utilitarianism
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Benthamism · utilitarianism · greatest happiness principle · the Benthamite creed · the greatest happiness of the greatest number
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The utilitarian legal-reform doctrine originated by Bentham, centered on the greatest-happiness principle, whose acceptance and influence the passage traces.
Benthamism exactly answered to the immediate want of the day.
Benthamism fell in with the habitual conservatism of Englishmen.
From 1832 onwards the supremacy of individualism among the classes then capable of influencing legislation was for many years incontestable and patent.