Classicism and Utilitarianism- Jeremy Bentham Flashcards
Human actions are acceptable…
if they promote happiness and are unacceptable if they produce the opposite of happiness.
Society should
produce the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
Individuals must use
their reason to pursue their own pleasure, then a state of positive social equilibrium will naturally emerge.
Pleasures and pains…
are assessed by their intensity, duration and proximity.
The principal control of free will is
fear, especially the fear of pain. This in order to influence the will and thus control behaviour.
Punishment must
overweight any pleasure derived from criminal behavior, but law must not be to severe to reduce the greatest happiness.
Law should
not be used to regulate morality but to control acts harmful to society that reduce the happiness of the majority.
Capital punishment is…
unnecessary- imprisionment should be extended. In occasions, torture might be necessary.
Criminality might be
learned behavior
He was concerned with
the prevention of crime rather than punished.
He invented the…
Panoptican. Design of a prison that reflected his ideas on criminal justice
His invention should…
act as a model for schools, asylums, workhouses, factories and hospitals that could be run of the “inspection principle” to ensure internal regulation, discipline and efficiency.
