Jeremy Bentham, The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number
- The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number: Section II. First Principles Enumerated — Human Nature 1: "For further proof, reference may be made to the general, indeed the all-comprehensive, principle of..."
- The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number: Section II. First Principles Enumerated — The Proper End of Government: "The right and proper end of government in every political community, is the greatest happiness..."
- The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number: Section II. First Principles Enumerated — Human Nature 2: "By the principle of self-preference, understand that propensity in human nature, by which, on the..."
In The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number (1830), Bentham argues for an ethical philosophy founded on the idea that the moral good is what produces the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number of individuals.