Jeremy Bentham was the first modern utilitarian, who had a mind that was set for the mathematical conception of pleasure over pain."(Mitchell,pp.403) He also studies Latin at the age of four, attended college when he was a teenager. Bentham was the godfather of James Mill's son. He was the first to attained attention as a critic of the leading legal theorist in the 18th century in England by Sir William Blackstone. '"Bentham's campaign for social and political reforms in all areas, most notably the criminal law, had its theoretical basis in his utilitarianism, expounded in his Introduction to the Principles of Moral and legislation, a work that was written in 1780, but it was not published until 1789."(BLTC, n.p) Bentham and Mill's version of utilitarianism talks about how they both addressed the social problem. Bentham's utilitarianism theory says "that it is found on the assumption that is the consequences of human actions that count in evaluating their merit and that the kind of consequence that matters for human happiness is just the achievement of pleasure and avoidance of pain."(Moreland,2009 …show more content…
The philosophers more conventionally grouped under this heading either never used disavowed 'existentialist.' The existentialism is about something sensible can be loosened which defined the movement. There are three sections of the article . First, we online a set of themes that define albeit very broadly, existentialist concerns. Second, we discuss individually six philosophers who were arguing about its central figures, stressing in these discussions the ways in which these philosophers approached existentialist themes in distinctive ways. Finally," we look very briefly at the influence of existentialism, especially outside philosophy."(Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy,