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1
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Bentham on what drives human beings

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” Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain”

2
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Act util

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“the rightness or wrongness of an act is calculated by the amount of happiness from each individual act”

3
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Mill on Q vs Q

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‘Happiness is most effectively gained when individuals are free to pursue their own ends’

4
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Mill socrates

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“Better to be socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied’

5
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Mill on pleasure

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‘People tend to pursue bodily pleasures, pursue sensual indulgences to the injury of healthy, aware that health is the greater good’

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What did Bentham believe?

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pleasure was the sole good and pain the sole evil