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Hedonism Before Bentham

Moen, Ole Martin; (2015) Hedonism Before Bentham. Journal of Bentham Studies , 17 pp. 1-18. Green open access

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Abstract

The hedonistic theories of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill are both widely known. Hedonism before Bentham, however, is much less known and, hitherto, no systematic presentation of hedonism’s early history has been written. In this paper I seek to fill this gap in the literature by providing an overview of hedonism in early Indian and ancient Greek thought (Sections 1-4), in Roman and Medieval thought (Section 5), and from the Renaissance until the Enlightenment (Section 6).

Type: Article
Title: Hedonism Before Bentham
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
Additional information: © Ole Martin Moen. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported International Licence. Under the terms of this licence, you are allowed to copy and redistribute this work, but must give the original author appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in a reasonanle manner, but not in any way that suggest the licensor endorses you or your use. To view a full copy of this licence, visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Keywords: Aristippus, Aristotle, Hedonism, History of Ethics, Plato
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1469354
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