Bentham & Mill

Question 1

What was Bentham’s core idea?

Answer 1

Pleasure is the only natural good, pain is naturally bad.

Question 2

Bentham’s famous line?

Answer 2

“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters: pain and pleasure.”

Question 3

Why is Bentham an ethical naturalist?

Answer 3

He reduces “good” to pleasure, a natural property.

Question 4

How does Mill’s naturalism define ‘good’?

Answer 4

Good is happiness.