Jeremy Bentham believed that the principle of utility, which aims to maximize happiness and minimize pain, should guide both individual morality and public policy. He formed the Benthamite movement to promote legal and social reform in Britain based on this principle. According to Bentham, pleasure and pain are the sovereign masters that determine what actions we ought to and will take. When evaluating actions, one should consider their potential to increase or decrease happiness based on several factors, including intensity, duration, certainty, proximity, fecundity, and purity. Motivation is an impulse to achieve a goal, and for Bentham, pleasure is intrinsically good while pain is intrinsically bad.

1. “Happiness Is the Greatest
Good”
by Jeremy Bentham
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SISTEM INFORMASI

2. About the author !!!
Jeremy Bentham’s (1748-1832) abiding concern in life was the total reform of British
society and law based on the principle of utility. He believed this principle was the
most reasonable guide to both individual morality and public policy. He formed the
Westminster Review and convinced radicals, opposed to both the Whigs and Tories, to
join the Benthamite movement. The group founded University College, London.

3. Of the Principle of Utility
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain
and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to
determine what we shall do.
The principle of utility is the ability of a person of goods or services in describing
the benefits, uses, or satisfaction of the people who consume them.

4. Among principles adverse to that of utility, that which at this day seems to have
most influence in matters of government, is what may be called the principle of
sympathy and antipathy. By the principle of sympathy and antipathy, I mean that
principle which approves or disapproves of certain actions, not on account of
their tending to augment the happiness, nor yet on account of their tending to
diminish the happiness.

5. The principle of sympathy is a feeling or attitude of someone who is attracted to
others because of something to be able to feel the feelings of others.
Example of sympathy is that your classmate won the national level youth
scientific work, then you congratulated him and expressed his pride and
admiration for the achievements he gained.

6. The principle of antipathy is a feeling of aversion, dislike or strong hatred of
others. People who have feelings of antipathy will feel fed up or not happy to see
or hear his name.
Example of antipathy The rejection of white people against black people in
Papua.

7. Value... How to be Measured
To a number of persons, with reference to each of whom to the value of a
pleasure or a pain is considered, it will be greater or less.
1. Its intensity.
2. Its duration.
3. Its certainty or uncertainty.
4. Its propinquity or remoteness.
5. Its fecundity.
6. Its purity.

8. 1.The intensity of the value of each indistinguishable pleasure that seems to be
generated by intensity.
2.The duration value of each pain that will remain painful that seems to be
produced by intensity.
3.The certainty or uncertainty of the value of every pleasure that seems to
proclaim This is the fertility of the impurity of pleasure and still painful pain.
4. The closeness and remoteness of the value of each pain that seems painful is
the fertility of the first pain, and the uncleanness of the first pleasure.

9. 5. The fecundity, or the possibility of being followed by the same sensation is
pleasure if it is pleasant or pain if it is annoying.
6.The purity, or the opportunity it has not to be followed by sensations of the
opposite type: that is, pain, if it becomes pleasure: pleasure, if it becomes pain.

10. Of Motives
Motivation is an impulse that causes someone to do an action to achieve a certain
goal.
Examples of motivational awards in the form of praise from teachers to
outstanding students.

11. Now, pleasure itself is a virtue: in fact, setting aside immunity from pain, the only
good: pain itself is evil and of course without exception, the only evil or good
and evil words have no meaning.