Bentham's Utilitarianism

Bentham is sometimes described as the father of utilitarianism. He would not accept a theological basis for ethics, he said. Bentham really thought that it's a human psychology which forms basis for ethics and underpinning that psychology is a physiology. So what you're saying is that Bentham's utilitarianism is an attempt to put ethics on a scientific basis? That's right and that's how he saw it.