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Bentham, Mill, and the Utilitarians

Political Theory 101

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Utilitarianism and Altruism

Market society is for everybody to develop because when people are responding to their own wants and desires through the laws of supply and demand, everybody will get what they need. It's kind of ironic because utilitarianism initially with a focus on pleasures and pains being realities reducible to seem to be a way of defending commercial society. And it's consequent luxuries which can of course be traced back to Mandeville's Fable of the Bees,. The subtitle of which is private vice's public benefits.

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