SOSC 1520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jeremy Bentham, Secret Ballot, Chartism
6 Feb 2017
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Jeremy bentham and james mill: the traditional view. Ford did this by releasing the ford pinto, a car that was cheap to make and easy to mass produce. Greatest good for greatest number of people. Democratic institutions: best chance to control government. Universal male suffrage (in their opinion, only males had the right to vote. ) Democracy was good in protecting society and the government. Bentham and mills: attempt to resolve utilitarian dilemma of support for both free markets and equality. Not only did equality lack, they even tried to justify it. They argued that money was the greatest measurement of pleasure and pain: general end of laws: four subordinate ends. The idea that we have enough to get by. And the idea that law could not help the starving so we can only help them while they are working. People as self-interest maximizers: conflicts with interests of others.
