Utilitarianism has been around in some form or another or nearly 2500 years when the ancient Greeks first came up with the ethical principle primum non nocere' translated into First, Do No Harm' and is what seems to be one of the first traces of utility. However Chinese philosopher Mozi was one of the first people to have an ethical system based on utilitarianism when founded his school in Mohism.
Some 1800 years later Jeremy Bentham proposed the principle of utilitarianism in Europe believing that pleasure and pain were the two absolutes' of the world in the world almost like black and white' and he showed us this with this statement nature has put man under the governance of two sovereign masters: pleasure and pain'. From here Bentham developed the Greatest Happiness Principle' (GHP) which is creating the greatest happiness for the greatest number'.
This was furthered by John Stuart Mill who reckoned that the intellectual, cultural and spiritual pleasures......
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