MODULE 2 WORKSHEETS– MIDTERM PERIOD

ETHICS – GE8

ND semester/ 2021-2022

Subject Professor: Lyra May Refuerzo-Alvariño

TOPIC: LECTURE 5 – UTILITARIANISM (FRANK

ARAGBONFOH ABUMERE)

Homework 9

Student Name: Bhea B. La-as

Year & Course: 1st year/ BEED

Due date: March 21, 2022 (Monday)

“Profiling”

Instruction: Names of the Philosophers were given below. Give these following to each Philosopher:

picture, biography/profile, and contributions to Philosophy.

Jeremy Bentham
Biography:

 The philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) was born in Spitalfields, London, on 15
February 1748. He proved to be something of a child prodigy: while still a toddler he was discovered
sitting at his father's desk reading a multi-volume history of England, and he began to study Latin at
the age of three.

Contributions:

 Jeremy Bentham is notable for being one of the founders of modern utilitarianism, which has been a
major current in philosophical ethics since the late 18th century, for his defense of psychological and
ethical hedonism, and for his far-reaching proposals for reforming Parliament, the legal code, the
judiciary, and the prison.

2. John Stuart Mill

Biography:

John Stuart Mill, (born May 20, 1806, London, England—died May 8, 1873, Avignon, France), English
philosopher, economist, and exponent of utilitarianism. He was prominent as a publicist in the
reforming age of the 19th century, and remains of lasting interest as a logician and an ethical theorist.

Contributions:

He was dubbed "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century"
because he saw liberty as justifying individual liberty in the face of unrestricted state and social
control. Mill was a follower of Jeremy Bentham's utilitarianism, an ethical philosophy he devised.