{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/7a3c5644-595b-4535-89cb-4df503953241/85112a3f-9b2c-41fb-a7bf-dd50202f3816?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Bentham on Pleasure","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6195407ecb03c875f76170fd/6195408d054fb40012de7cf8.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Jeremy Bentham’s Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation is a definitive early statement of the basis of utilitarianism: how do we achieve the greatest happiness of the greatest number?&nbsp;David looks at Bentham’s rationale for this approach and the many criticisms it has faced.&nbsp;Bentham has often been accused of reducing politics to mechanical calculation and missing what really matters.&nbsp;But given the time in which he was writing, wasn’t the prioritisation of pleasure the most radical idea of all?</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/bentham1780.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free online version of text</strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/books/utilitarianism-and-other-essays/9780140432725\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Recommended version to purchase</strong></a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Going deeper…</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li><a href=\"https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1322989/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Lucas and Anne Sheeran, ‘Asperger’s Syndrome and the Eccentricity and Genius of Jeremy Bentham’ (2006)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.waterstones.com/book/discipline-and-punish/michel-foucault/9780241386019\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Michel Foucault, <em>Discipline and Punish</em> (1975) </a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/23/panopticon-digital-surveillance-jeremy-bentham#:~:text=The%20basic%20setup%20of%20Bentham's,central%20tower%20surrounded%20by%20cells.&amp;text=The%20tower%20shines%20bright%20light,they%20are%20always%20under%20observation.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas McMullan, ‘What does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance?’, <em>The Guardian </em>(2015)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05xhwqf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">(Audio) <em>In Our Time</em>, Utilitarianism</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Talking Politics"}