History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET December 2014 History
Who was the recognized leader of Utilitarianism?
AAdam Smith
BJeremy Bentham ✓ Correct
CFriedrich Engels
DEdmund Burke
Correct answer: (B) Jeremy Bentham — Jeremy Bentham was the recognized leader of Utilitarianism, so the answer is Jeremy Bentham.
Explanation
★Jeremy Bentham was the recognized leader of Utilitarianism, so the answer is Jeremy Bentham.
★He gave the principle of the greatest good of the greatest number.
★He judged laws and actions by the happiness they brought.
★His ideas guided much of British reform in the nineteenth century.
★Adam Smith, by contrast, was an economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations.
★Bentham's followers were known as the Philosophic Radicals.
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