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
Some scientists believed that langur infanticide was influenced by human disturbance.
Plato (428–347 B.C.E.). Ancient Greek philosopher of extraordinary significance in the history of ...
Jeremy Bentham, A General Idea of a Penitentiary Panopticon, drawn by Willey Reveley.
Plato’s Divided Line
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832).
Digital illustration of a fish that was believed to have become extinct during the Cretaceous Period