| As the founder of the system of utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian ideology has greatresearch value, its political philosophy due to the enormous practical significance particularlynoteworthy. Bentham’s utilitarian political philosophy in a special historical period, and its contents,including utilitarian greatest happiness of most people and representative democracy, the date of thereality of political practice had a significant impact.Bentham’s utilitarian political philosophy reason why the impact of such a far-reaching itself hasmany theoretical advantages: strongly and earnestly safeguard the interests of the individual, whileconcerned about the public interest, in the evaluation of the political life of its inspection standardsvery effective, and pleased to social reform and progress showed the tendency to increase itsattractiveness. But the theory itself because there is difficult to overcome the drawbacks, such as theneglect of social justice, the result is too much emphasis on the value of the evaluation of behavior, aswell as its pursuit of "the greatest happiness of most people is not specific enough, and these havemade Bentham’s political philosophical thought by a lot of criticism, both from the utilitarian campitself, and also from the outside. Critical process that lasted more than100years, Bentham thoughtheirs response lasted for over a hundred years. Mill perfect happiness concept, the representativedemocratic ideas further development and improvement, Sidgwick completely with the utilitarianismof Bentham to ethics, Smart and Brent controversy in Bentham thought reasonable and unreasonablefactors presented to the full range of people, criticism of Rawls Bentham ideology suffered a heavyblow at the same time, also absorb more reasonable factors, and then developed into a politicalutilitarianism.Conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the political philosophy of Bentham’sutilitarianism can provide much useful enlightenment for China’s reform and practice. |
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