UTILITARIANISM AND LONGING FOR HAPPINESS

Abstract

Utilitarianism is a theory of Happiness which was born as the broader sense of the theory Hedonism.In the late 18^th century and almost the starting of the 19^th century the concept of Hedonism was developed in a broad sense. British philosopher Jeremy Bentham is considered as the founder of the theory of Utilitarianism. Later on both the Philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill developed the concept of the theory. Utilitarianism gains its popularity in the late 18^th century in the hands of British philosopher Jeremy Bentham in his book “An introduction to the principles of Morals and legislation” in 1789. How people can be happy with the greatest number is the main motto of this theory. How utilitarianism can be the theory of highest utility for human happiness, is the debate for this paper with comparision to Mill and Bentham