Bentham Cards
Description: Seven gauges measure intensity, duration, certainty, propinquity, fecundity, purity and extent around a dial of pleasure and pain. Can the rightness of an action be measured in units of happiness? The right act is the one that produces the greatest happiness for the greatest number. Bentham even proposed seven dimensions for weighing every pleasure and pain. Source: Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789, J. S. Mill, 1861.
Description: Jeremy Bentham was a prominent 18th-century philosopher and social reformer, known for his utilitarianism philosophy. Bentham's influential ideas advocated for maximizing happiness and minimizing suffering in society, making him a key figure in ethics, jurisprudence, and political philosophy
