Benthamites

It is my belief that much of the notion popularly entertained of the tenets and sentiments of what are called Benthamites or Utilitarians had its origin in paradoxes thrown out by Charles Austin.

Chapter III. Last Stage of Education and First of Self-Education 1909

It is my belief that much of the notion popularly entertained of the tenets and sentiments of what are called Benthamites or Utilitarians had its origin in paradoxes thrown out by Charles Austin.

The autobiography of John Stuart Mill 1873

Political affinities have often been traced between the Fabian socialists and the Benthamites who played such a big part in initiating and implementing the Poor Law of 1834: it is interesting to note that in this statement Beatrice

WELFARE STATE ASA BRIGGS 1968

English liberalism, though scarcely used by the laissez - faire economists and the Benthamites, it came to be more widely used in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

TYPES OF INDIVIDUALISM STEVEN LUKES 1968

Well, should we set aside the more disputable point whether for various reasons it was possible to anchor the fleet, then plausibly enough the Benthamites of war may urge the above.

Billy Budd 1924

It would have been upheld by Rousseau or Dr. Johnson, and broadly speaking by everybody before the Benthamites.

The Problem of China Bertrand Russell 1921

And with Locke, as with the Benthamites, his clear sense of what utilitarianism demanded led to an over-emphasis of human rationalism.

Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham Harold Joseph Laski 1921

The movement, therefore, started, not on Roman ground, but in a panic provoked by the alliance of O Connell with the Whigs, of Dissenters with Benthamites, intent on destroying all religious establishments.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

It is, or was, part of the popular notion of Benthamites, that they are enemies of poetry: this was partly true of Bentham himself; he used to say that “all poetry is misrepresentation: “ but in the sense in which he said it, the same might have been said of all impressive speech; of all representation or inculcation mote oratorical in its character than a sum in arithmetic.

Chapter IV. Youthful Propagandism. The Westminster Review 1909

Although this last is prodigiously important as a means of improvement in the hands of those who are themselves impelled by nobler principles of action, I do not believe that any one of the survivors of the Benthamites or Utilitarians of that day, now relies mainly upon it for the general amendment of human conduct.

Chapter IV. Youthful Propagandism. The Westminster Review 1909