Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) trained as a lawyer and founded the early 19th century school of political thought known as “Benthamism” or utilitarianism which was based upon the idea that governments …

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There he argues that the alternative terms ‘the greatest happiness or greatest felicity’ are preferable because ‘[t]he word utility does not so clearly point to the ideas of pleasure and pain as the words …

THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD. 49 For hundreds of years God had never spoken by means of any prophet, and at that time the prophet was greater than the King. Men waited wistfully for …

For Melissa, Meital, Jack, Adir, and, most especially, the little one on the way – by any measure, the greatest

We have been accustomed to be told that the greatest thing in the religious world is Faith. That great word has been the key-note for centuries of the popular re-ligion; and we have easily learned to look …

See how many children would like to vote for themselves to be the greatest. A very real part of our human nature is the desire to be considered “the greatest.” If the class comes to a consensus, …