What are the advantages of utilitarianism?
… masses of France rose up to destroy the aristocracy that was forcing them to work for their own ends. Roseau famously said the revolution was about “liberty, equality and fraternity” and finally there was Victorian Britain. But one who summarized by hulme when he famously said that metaphysics is nonsense on stilts this is where the two fathers of utilitarianism were born. Jeremy Bentham and J.S. Mill. They paraded for social and political reform. Bentham helped reform the penal system and J.S. Mill campaigned for women’s rights. They were both campaigning for change in the political time of lasses-faire that the government had adopted at this time. Also Britain had placed itself in so called splendid isolation form the rest of the world. The advantages of utilitarianism are things like it is good for the government because its aim is to provide the greatest good for the greatest number. It is …
