🔆 Jeremy Bentham
✅ “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to
point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do”.
✅ Jeremy Bentham, the father of the theory of Utilitarianism wrote the above-mentioned quote in the introduction to his book ‘Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation’.
✅ The theory of utilitarianism describes human conduct as one that avoids pain and maximises pleasure.
✅ Bentham said that humans will maximise pleasure and avoid pain.
✅ In this regard, ethics at large may be defined, the art of directing men’s actions to the production of the greatest possible quantity of happiness.
✅ The moral agent will perform the action that maximises happiness or pleasure for everyone involved.
✅ However, a few points of criticism emanate from his theory of ethics.
✅ First, it is difficult to measure happiness in quantifiable terms.
✅ Secondly, pleasure and pain are subjective in nature.
✅ Pushkin, one of the major critics of Bentham noted that it was better to be an intellectual who is dissatisfied than a pig which is satisfied.
✅ Human nature too could be described by the theory of psychological hedonism (motives of pain and pleasure).
✅ All human actions are guided by this theory.
#ethics
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✅ “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to
point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do”.
✅ Jeremy Bentham, the father of the theory of Utilitarianism wrote the above-mentioned quote in the introduction to his book ‘Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation’.
✅ The theory of utilitarianism describes human conduct as one that avoids pain and maximises pleasure.
✅ Bentham said that humans will maximise pleasure and avoid pain.
✅ In this regard, ethics at large may be defined, the art of directing men’s actions to the production of the greatest possible quantity of happiness.
✅ The moral agent will perform the action that maximises happiness or pleasure for everyone involved.
✅ However, a few points of criticism emanate from his theory of ethics.
✅ First, it is difficult to measure happiness in quantifiable terms.
✅ Secondly, pleasure and pain are subjective in nature.
✅ Pushkin, one of the major critics of Bentham noted that it was better to be an intellectual who is dissatisfied than a pig which is satisfied.
✅ Human nature too could be described by the theory of psychological hedonism (motives of pain and pleasure).
✅ All human actions are guided by this theory.
#ethics
@Anmolvachan1
@upsc_ethics_toppers