Benthamite
- a word derived from Benthamism.
Example Sentences
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“By any Benthamite pleasure/pain calculation, the sum is less than zero. A net negative of suffering. Which makes you wonder why anybody plays at all.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2018
Civil rights, religious tolerance, and a fundamental commitment to Benthamite individualistic values in a Popperian “open society” have paid off handsomely, but they are not guaranteed.
From Forbes ● Dec. 13, 2011
There is, however, another side to the Benthamite principle, to understand which we must state the heads of the theory itself as a positive doctrine.
From Liberalism by Hobhouse, L. T. (Leonard Trelawny)
This speech and the repeal of the Acts were Benthamite in essence.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon
From the Benthamite point of view, the argument for Christianity must be simply the historical evidence.
From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
