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Bentham's utilitarianism is presented as a mathematical social philosophy that maximizes pleasure and reduces pain, arriving at liberal tolerance through calculation.
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Bentham
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "It could fight a war against someone like Napoleon and keep on fighting until Napoleon was finally defeated. So it took six, seven wars,..."
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Jiang links Locke, Hume, and Bentham to a civilizational philosophy of property, weakened truth, and utilitarian pleasure that later becomes Western values.
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"It could fight a war against someone like Napoleon and keep on fighting until Napoleon was finally defeated. So it took six, seven wars,..."
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"...of the pursuit of truth and you have people like Jeremy Bentham which put utilitarianism as the as the heart and center of society..."
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"The British, and then later on the Americans, only ask, what works, okay? What works? What is the least, okay? Worst world we can..."
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"it's really a question of like, how do you, how do you mathematically and logically come to the point where you have a tolerant,..."
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"...spending money it must be good okay and this is from bentham and then john stewart mills will make some we'll make some adjustments..."
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"...We discussed in the last class about John Locke, David Hume, Bentham, Mill, Marx, Darwin, okay? These were all thinkers sponsored by Britain. To..."
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"...pointless. Don't think about God. Just focus on material wealth. Jeremy Bentham, utility is everything, okay? How do we know what's good, what's right,..."
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"...I teach to learn okay um so this YouTuber says bad Bentham says um I under represent livestock in the economic system and this..."
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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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