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Quotes from Théorie des peines et des récompenses — Jeremy Bentham

1748–1832 England

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To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

Théorie des peines et des récompenses (1811)

Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure … There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.

Théorie des peines et des récompenses (1811)

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