Victorian Ideas

Question 1

Jeremy Bentham

“The Principles of Morals and Legislation”

Answer 1

Principle of utility
Tried to reform society and cut out things that didn’t follow the principle of utility.
Wants everything to be comprehensible
Rationalism: particulars

Question 2

Principle of utility

Answer 2

Maximizing pleasure an minimizing pain

Moral claims must follow this principle.

Question 3

Utilitarianism

Answer 3

Individualistic
People are islands among themselves and have no moral or ethical similarities
Humans are only tied together biologically
Broke down biblical authority

Question 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The Eolian Harp”

Answer 4

Wind/harp analogy: one completed the other
This breeze (God) united all things and is incomprehensible
Romanticism: one to many (unity)
Many struggled to explain life by still maintaining unity

Question 5

Synesthesia

Answer 5

Complex sensation that has multiple senses (when light has a sound)