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The view Jiang attributes to Bentham: good is measured by pleasure or utility for the majority.
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utilitarianism
The view Jiang attributes to Bentham: good is measured by pleasure or utility for the majority.
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Glossary
Bentham's philosophy that pleasure and pain govern motivation and society should maximize pleasure while reducing pain.
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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.
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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.
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The packet links British utilitarian reconstruction of society to material motives and calculations.
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When a society's utilitarian nature overbalances altruism, Jiang says the balance is almost impossible to restore and social collapse follows.
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Capital moves people from an altruistic relational state into a utilitarian state, which is initially productive but eventually becomes cheating, exploitation, and collapse.
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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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"that this is an unfair system which it is right so now you have to brainwash the people into believing this is a fair..."
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"then you have someone named uh David Hume okay David Hume and David Hume argued for skepticism and skepticism just says that um everything..."
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"okay if you if you take drugs and you are happy with it it must be good if you like spending money it must..."
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"Which is to say, the world is one of class struggle. It's not between God and us. It's not between the divine and the..."
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"...can we do? And so Darien Bantham proposed the idea of utilitarianism. The way we understand the world is just through utility. If it..."
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"...Okay. So the very idea of liberalism today is based on utilitarianism. So for example, homosexuality. Why is homosexuality good? Because first of all,..."
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"Okay. So where the 17th Frank is and where the British Empire clapped the most was in philosophy, developing an understanding of the world..."
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"But through just experience and only experience. Okay. Then Hume proposed a new idea called skepticism. And he goes in further. He goes in..."
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"Since the peace, there has been an attempt to advocate a reconstruction of society on a purely rational basis. The principle of utility has..."
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"Okay, so again, this is the idea of, you did terrorism, right? This is Jeremy Bantham, John Stuart Mill. Keep on going."
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"focus more on Africa okay I want to go to Africa and I want to learn more about content so I can comment um..."
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"have two natures an altruistic and utitarian nature and what we've discovered is that um if you break the balance and you become too..."
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