Benthamism

I often amuse myself by trying to imagine what Bentham would have said of Benthamism expounded by Mill.

Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.

One who believes in Benthamism.

The English Miss Sedgwick deserves the thanks of humanity for putting Benthamism into clean purple and fine linen.

But in England the dominant philosophy was Benthamism, the dominant theology was equally hard, and Newman turned from both in disgust, took to the theological road-making of the Via Media, and finally found refuge in Rome, driven by the conviction that ‘there are but two alternatives, the way to Rome and the way to atheism.’