Bentham on Utility and Cultural Value
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When examining the relevance of Bentham’s thinking to debates on cultural value, we should look, first all, at significance utility as an independent ethical principle. Bentham finds term ‘utility’ in philosophy David Hume, condemns Hume’s use this ambiguous, and establishes principle that is opposed preference for delicacy sentiment good taste. I argue Hume averse very thing places centre his ethics, namely a reckoning can all make with how pleasure shapes our sense self. us under obligation work out what pleasures mean us, they situate world, others will respond gives most pleasure. This working hypothesis each pleasure, must be conveyed neutral, non-judgemental terms. espouses simple amusements, including games push-pin solitaire, examples recalculation possibilities increasing diminishing pain take place, defiance evaluations ‘high’ ‘low’. These distinctions high low culture are only one example definitions affect social organization within broader conception value. asks whether value equitable just, when seen relation aim prolonging pain. (249 words)
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Revue d'e?tudes benthamiennes
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1760-7507']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/etudes-benthamiennes.9202