The dictates of utility are neither more nor less than the dictates of the most extensive and enlightened (that is, well-advised) benevolence.
Jeremy Bentham
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www.utilitarian.net/hume
Born: May 7th, 1711; Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: April 25, 1776; Edinburgh, Scotland
Representative works: A Treatise of Human Nature (London, 1740), An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (London, 1751), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (London, 1777)
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www.utilitarian.net/bentham
Born: February 15th, 1748; Houndsditch, England
Died: June 6th, 1832; London, England
Representative works: A Fragment on Government (London, 1776), An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (London, 1789), Deontology (London, 1834)
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www.utilitarian.net/godwin
Born: March 3rd, 1756; Cambridgeshire, England
Died: April 7th, 1836; London, England
Representative works: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice (London, 1793), Things as they are, or the Adventures of Caleb Williams (London, 1794), Thoughts on Man (London, 1831)
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www.utilitarian.net/jmill
Born: April 6th, 1773; Forfarshire, Scotland
Died: June 23rd, 1836; London, England
Representative works: History of India (London, 1817), Elements of Political Economy (London, 1821), An Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind (London, 1829)
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www.utilitarian.net/jsmill
Born: May 20th, 1806; London, England
Died: May 8th, 1873; Avignon, France
Representative works: A System of Logic (London, 1843), On Liberty (London, 1859), Utilitarianism (London, 1863)
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www.utilitarian.net/sidgwick
Born: May 31st, 1838; Yorkshire, England
Died: August 29th, 1900; Cambridgeshire, England
Representative works: The Methods of Ethics (London, 1874), The Principles of Political Economy (London, 1883), The Elements of Politics (London, 1891)
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www.utilitarian.net/hare
Born: March 21st, 1919; Somerset, England
Died: January 29th, 2002; Oxfordshire, England
Representative works: The Language of Morals (Oxford, 1952), Freedom and Reason (Oxford, 1963), Moral Thinking (Oxford, 1981)
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www.utilitarian.net/singer
Born: July 6, 1946; Melbourne, Australia
Representative works: Animal Liberation (New York, 1975), Practical Ethics (Cambridge, 1979), Rethinking Life and Death (Melbourne, 1994)
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It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise. Belief in happiness, I found, was called Utilitarianism, and was merely one among a number of ethical theories. I adhered to it after this discovery.
Bertrand Russell
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