... an expected next step. In George Sher's introduction to one of John Stuart Mill's writings he recounts that, "the first elements of utilitarian thought" are brought out by the philosopher David Hume and then seen in political systems like utilitarianism (Mill, vii). However this thought's tradition truly found its home in England. The basis of his theory seems simple, just like a math ... surrounding the question. Jeremy Bentham, the founding father of Utilitarianism, takes up the long debated topic and gives his opinion from the British point of view. In a collection of Bentham's works...

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