Util Quotes Flashcards

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J. Bentham - “Nature has placed mankind under….

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governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure”

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Thomas Hobbes - “The life of man is…

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solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

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Gertrude Himmelfarb - “The greatest happiness of the greatest number…

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might thus require the greatest misery of the few.”

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John Broome - “It is characteristic of the utilitarian theory..

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or right that rightness is derived from goodness”

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