Word Meanings - BENTHAMISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.

• Determined
  of Determine
• Explanation
  The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.
• Humanizing
  of Humanize
• Phaseomannite
  Same as Inosite.
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Determining
  of Determine
• Humanize
  To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.
• Pleasure
  The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or satisfying; -- opposed to pain, sorrow, etc.
• Benthamic
  Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.
• Determine
  To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.
• Humanate
  Indued with humanity.
• Humanizer
  One who renders humane.
• Pleasured
  of Pleasure
• Benthamism
  That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only
• Determinedly
  In a determined manner; with determination.

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