Jeremy Bentham

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• POPractical Orientation

  8 / 10
• TRTrust in Reason

  7 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  7 / 10
• UIUniversalist Impulse

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Henry SidgwickFORGE

  Methods of Ethics — utilitarianism, egoism, intuitionism scrupulously compared.

• William MacAskillFORGE

  Effective altruism and longtermism — doing the most good with the most rigor.

• Adam SmithFORGE

  Theory of Moral Sentiments — the impartial spectator inside each of us.

• Karatani KojinFORGE

  Modes of exchange — capital and the gift as paired political histories.

• VoltaireFORGE

  Crush the infamy. Defend free speech to the death. Cultivate your garden.

• Francis HutchesonFORGE

  Moral sense school — benevolence as the proper object of approval.

Concepts where Jeremy Bentham sits in the conversation. Each links to a primer.

• Utilitarianism
  The right action is the one that produces the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
• Hedonism
  Pleasure is the only thing intrinsically good. Everything else is good only insofar as it leads there.

Side-by-side with other philosophers, dimension by dimension.

• Jeremy Bentham VS Mill

Short exercises in the same tradition as Jeremy Bentham's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Premortem →

  Imagine the failure of your plan in vivid detail before you start.

• Steelmanning the opposite →

  Write the strongest possible version of the view you most reject.

• Switch sides →

  Argue both sides of a debate, alternating, until you no longer know which side you started on.