Veritas et Sapientia-The Consequences of The Enlightenments, Darkening Ideas
Mandeville, LA - Traditional morality was on his [Bentham's] view pervaded by superstition; it was not until we under- stood that the only motives for human action are attraction to pleasure and aversion to pain that we can state the principles of an enlightened morality, for which the prospect of the maximum pleasure and absence of pain pro- vides a telos. 'Pleasure' Bentham took to be the name of a type […]