These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. (1) individual well-being ought to be the end of moral action (2) each individual is to ‘count for one and no more than one’ and (3) the object of social action should be to maximize general utility (or, in Bentham’s phrase, to promote the greatest happiness of the greatest number). And indeed, although his formulation equates utility with pleasure in a way that many contemporary utilitarians would reject, Bentham does implicitly identify the central propositions that continue to inform philosophical utilitarianism today: i.e. Jeremy Bentham added these ‘memoriter verses’ to a revised edition of An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation to fix in the reader’s mind those points ‘on which the whole fabric of morals and legislation may be seen to rest’ (Bentham, 1789, p.
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