Plato and other philosophers disagreed with Bentham in that they:
A. believed some pleasures are more intense than others.
B. believed some pleasures are morally better than others.
C. believed that it makes no sense to say one pleasure is better than another.
D. held that one pain cannot be quantitatively different from another.
E. thought the moral character of an action is determined by the results it produces.
Question 2
Who suggested that an invisible hand operates in a free market to promote the general welfare of society?
A. Karl Marx, in Das Kapital
B. Jeremy Bentham, in Principles of Morals and Legislation
C. Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations
D. James Mill, in a speech to the Philosophical Radicals
E. John Stuart Mill, in Utilitarianism
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