Hutcheson

Ken Binmore (k.binmore@ucl.ac.uk)

Chapter Chapter 3 in Early Utilitarians, 2021, pp 9-16 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract One can identify the utilitarian ideal gradually taking form in a number of early writers like Shaftesbury, but I have chosen to regard Francis Hutcheson as the first true utilitarian. He certainly anticipated Jeremy Bentham by writing of the\greatest happiness for the greatest number" as early as 1728, when the Scottish Enlightenment was just getting off the ground.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-74583-7_3

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