
Philip Schofield on Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism
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Bentham's Utilitarianism
Bentham took a very consistent utilitarian approach to sexual morality. As early as the 1780s he wrote against the criminalization of homosexuality. Bentham has a far more subtle psychology than he's often portrayed as half-ink. He was in favour of marriage because he thought that was conducive to happiness overall but there wasn't a unnatural mode claimed by what he called religionists.
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