I am preparing my first lecture for the seminar I am giving at UNC Chapel Hill in the Public Policy Department. I need to find where it is that Mill attributes to Bentham the formula "each to count for one and none for more than one" or words to that effect. I have searched UTILITARIANISM and ON LIBERTY, I have Googled, I have searched Bentham himself [INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND LEGISLATION] but I cannot come up with it.
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It is in Utilitarianism, but the wording is slightly different. Try the bottom of the page here:
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(That's p. 388 of Dissertations and Defenses.)
Thank you so much. That is essentially almost the last page of the essay. That will do it nicely.
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Hey, I'm a new reader to your blog. You might be interested to know that I'm supposedly descended from Sir Jeremy Bentham (on my mother's side). Sadly I never studied utilitarianism in university (I was a poli-sci major).
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ReplyDeleteJohn Stuart Mill was Bertrand Russell's godfather, and I once had tea with Bertrand Russell, but that is close as I ever got to the founders of modern utilitarianism.
Mo I too am a Polly sci major, yet I found several classes I took covered mill and Bentham
ReplyDeleteMore about "Bentham on display", with (probably out-of-date) photo, at
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Chris: I took political theory courses but never studied utilitarianism. I think I would have had to take philosophy classes to do that. My university seemed to focus a lot on Marxism (too much for my tastes). But that's what comes from going to the most left-wing university in Canada I guess, haha!
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