Adebayo Adeniran

May 1, 2021

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Mill’s philosophical mentor, Jeremy Bentham, isn’t much better in the eyes of many. Bentham, similar to Mill, held many beliefs that would align with modern, liberal sensibilities. He supported women’s rights and economic freedoms, factored the suffering of animals into his moral equations, opposed slavery, physical punishments, the criminalization of homosexuality and argued for the separation of church and state.

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You are quite right, Jeremy Bentham, the founder of University College London, wrote about psychological hedonism.

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