utilitarianism

The view Jiang attributes to Bentham: good is measured by pleasure or utility for the majority.

Bentham's philosophy that pleasure and pain govern motivation and society should maximize pleasure while reducing pain.

Benthamite pleasure/pain logic named by Jiang as one pillar of modern Western moral order.

In Jiang’s telling, Locke, Hume, Bentham, Mill, Marx, Darwin, and Freud each help remove the divine and reframe life around property, experience, utility, class, animality, or sex.

British empiricism, skepticism, utilitarianism, and liberalism are framed as a philosophical sequence that denies God and truth and replaces them with experience, convention, and utility.

The packet links British utilitarian reconstruction of society to material motives and calculations.

When a society's utilitarian nature overbalances altruism, Jiang says the balance is almost impossible to restore and social collapse follows.

Capital moves people from an altruistic relational state into a utilitarian state, which is initially productive but eventually becomes cheating, exploitation, and collapse.

Bentham's utilitarianism is presented as a mathematical social philosophy that maximizes pleasure and reduces pain, arriving at liberal tolerance through calculation.

Jiang argues that MAID in Canada is morally corrosive because it functions as a utilitarian mechanism for removing poor people so that the affluent face less strain in public systems such as hospitals.

Jiang argues that Anglo-American civilization is radically utilitarian, bureaucratic, and culturally flattening, and that Germany's defeat led to a steep decline in high cultural production.