Bentham and Utilitarianism

Robert U. Ayres ()
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Chapter Chapter 9 in The History and Future of Economics, 2023, pp 113-126 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The importance of happiness as an end for humans has long been recognized. Forms of hedonism were put forward by Aristippus and Epicurus; Aristotle argued that eudaimonia is the highest human good; and Augustine wrote that “all men agree in desiring the last end, which is happiness”.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26208-1_9

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