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Bentham, Mill, and the Utilitarians

Political Theory 101

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Trade Isn't as Bold as War

Machiavellianism initially was the result of warfare in the early modern period. But then this public Machiavellistism was tied to a private Machiavellanism resulting from a process similar to war which is trade. Trade because it is not necessarily always threatening one's life, it is more generally threatening you with extreme pain rather than the threat of death leads to a morality that puts pleasure and pain as the markers of good and evil. Utilitarianism by not recognizing politics and communities is always emphasizing more global integration,. he says.

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