Crossword-Solution: BENTHAMISM
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| Benthamism | n. | That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “BENTHAMISM”
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| PHILOSOPHY based on measurability of pleasure and aim of greatest happiness of the greatest number | 1 answer |
| utilitarian philosophy | 1 answer |
| missionary spirit | 4 answers |
| crusading spirit | 5 answers |
| humanitarianism | 11 answers |
| social conscience | 18 answers |
| universal benevolence | 18 answers |
| good works | 19 answers |
| humanism | 19 answers |
| philanthropy | 23 answers |
| humanity | 78 answers |
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Sentences with BENTHAMISM (5)
Yet Ethelberta's gradient had been regular: emotional poetry, light verse, romance as an object, romance as a means, thoughts of marriage as an aid to her pursuits, a vow to marry for the good of her family; in other words, from soft and playful Romanticism to distorted Benthamism.
But avoiding Benthamism, or an inadequate conception of the religious side in man, culture makes us also avoid Mialism, or an inadequate conception of man's totality.
How then can the period of Benthamism include the humanitarian legislation which begins with the first Factory Act of 1802 and broadens out during the middle of the century into the elaborate code regulating from then onwards the conditions of employment in workshops, factories, and mines? How can a monster beget an angel? We may perhaps throw light on this difficulty by suggesting that the _social_ trend from 1825-70 cannot be compressed into a single word.
Bentham himself was an admirer of Owen and supported his philanthropy, but, as expressions of a social attitude, Benthamism and Owenism were poles asunder.
Benthamism is an _eyeless_ Heroism: the Human Species, like a hapless blinded Samson grinding in the Philistine Mill, clasps convulsively the pillars of its Mill; brings huge ruin down, but ultimately deliverance withal.