... . Utility did away with universal norms of morality and made a balance system that said one ought to do what has the most pleasurable results and lesser proportion of painful consequences. Jeremy Bentham was one of the first founding fathers to further this new system in England. Utilitarianism was introduced by the British theologian William Paley in his Principles of Moral and ... Political Philosophy and by the British jurist and philosopher Jeremy Bentham in his Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Encarta). In Paley's work, utilitarianism is fused with both indi...

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