Utilitarian Philosohy

Utilitarian Philosohy Greatest happiness for the greatest number http://utilitarianphilosophy.com British philosophers were inspired then by Auguste Comte's altruism.

Utilitarianism is a British philosophical movement which begins with Jeremy Bentham, continues with James and John Stuart Mill and ends, for the 19tnh century, with Henry Sidgwick. This philosophical movement was theory promoting great happiness for the greater number. And as happiness needs a minimum of financial resources, produced by individuals and each happiness produced by individuals, bring

s happiness of the greater number. Utilitarianism is an economic, political, ethical and philosophical thought which is the base of the modern society in which we live. Utilitarianism takes its origin in France with the Theory of the "laissez-faire" which the Physiocrats developed in the second half of the 18th century. The "laissez-faire" consists of an economic liberalism asking for the non-intervention of the State in the commercial and industrial affairs. This constitutes the economic aspect of this need of freedom
Utilitarianism also advocates the happiness of the individual and the group of individual, which constitutes the society. And this constitutes the ethical and social aspect of this need of freedom and independence. A socio-economical liberalism is then born. This liberalism is not only economic, it is also political, social and ethical, meaning that we take into account the individual, each individual and each individual's happiness, just as much as the happiness of the group in which each individual evolves. Of this liberalism, is born two currents, which we find nearly in all Europe: a social liberalism (socialism) and an economical liberalism (capitalism). Utilitarianism closer to economical liberalism than social liberalism because in this period in which utilitarianism begins, the British Empire is at the top of its power.

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09/06/2023

ISUS Conference 2024
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics

Call for papers

The 17th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies will take place on 18–20 June 2024 at University College London’s Faculty of Laws. The Conference is generously supported by the Faculty’s Bentham House Conference Fund.

Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900) is recognized as the third in the trinity of major classical utilitarian thinkers, following Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806–73). We will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics, a work described by John Rawls as ‘the most philosophically profound of the strictly classical works’ in the utilitarian tradition.

We welcome paper and panel proposals which address issues raised by Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics and his other works, as well as papers and panel proposals related to the study of utilitarianism more generally. Please send your abstract of around 300 words to [email protected] by 30 November 2023.

Panels will have a duration of ninety minutes, and usually consist of three papers.

We aim to make decisions on the acceptance of papers by mid-December 2023, and will shortly thereafter open registration for a period for accepted speakers only, before then fully opening registration. Further details about the Conference will be announced through the ISUS mailing list and the forthcoming website. For all other queries about the Conference, please contact [email protected].

Invited speakers
Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek (Lodz)
Bart Schultz (Chicago)
Peter Singer (Princeton)
John Skorupski (St Andrews)
The International Society for Utilitarian Studies Newsletter
by ISUS
Bentham House Faculty of Laws University College London 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens London, London WC1H 0EG United Kingdom

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