The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Fall 2020), pp. 195-209 (15 pages) At nearly the same moment, Jeremy Bentham and Henry Thornton adopted diametrically opposed approaches to ...

A long time ago on an island far, far away, a man by the name of Jeremy Bentham, with his beloved cat by his side (presumably), which he lovingly named, “The Reverend Sir John Langbourne ...

Utilitarianism, championed by Jeremy Bentham, holds that the right action is whatever maximizes overall well-being. In contrast, Kantian ethics maintains that certain moral duties are absolute ...