Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, left careful instructions ... Rick Weiss, the science writer for The Washington Post, quotes a stem cell researcher on this point: To start with, people ...

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Utilitarianism is a tradition of ethical philosophy that's associated with Jeremy Bentham (1747-1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), two British philosophers, economists, and political thinkers.