Benthamism

American  

[ben-thuh-miz-uhm, -tuh-] / ˈbɛn θəˌmɪz əm, -tə- /

noun

1. the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham.

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Benthamism British  

/ ˈbɛnθəˌmɪzəm /

noun

1. the philosophy of utilitarianism as first expounded by Jeremy Bentham in terms of an action being good that has a greater tendency to augment the happiness of the community than to diminish it

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Other Word Forms

• Benthamite
  noun
• Benthamic
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of Benthamism

First recorded in 1820–30; Bentham + -ism

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Example Sentences

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Benthamism

During the eighteenth century Benthamism had gone through its period of incubation.

From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Sir Leslie Stephen

No one can pretend, for instance, that there is any body of theoretic opinion so compact and so well thought out as Benthamism was in its own day and generation.

From Studies in Literature by John Morley

For all its philanthropy, Benthamism did not settle the problem of the conditions of life among the working classes.

From A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease

So again, in the modified Benthamism which the persuasive exposition of J.S.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

The failure was of the sort which was inevitably incident to Benthamism.

From A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease

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