Bentham & J. S. Mill - Utilitarianism & Liberalism
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- čas přidán 20. 06. 2024
- Professor Charles Anderson discusses the thought of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, particularly regarding their utilitarianism and commitment to liberalism. This comes from a course on Political, Economic, & Social Thought given at the University of Wisconsin many years ago.
00:00 Jeremy Bentham
43:03 John Stuart Mill
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00:00 Bentham
43:03 Mill
3 min in and i'm already mindblowed by the fact that Jeremy came out with the concept of the panopticon, damn
Wow. The exposition on Mill’s ideas was one of the most profound things I’ve heard in a long time. I’ve never heard the argument for freedom of speech be couched in that way; that we should permit all positions because the ‘status quo’ could be wrong. It’s a simultaneous embracing of relativism and yet an acknowledgment that we can build toward a more complete truth. Something our current day and age could benefit from
Such a good lecture! It must have been given in the early eighties, because he talks of the government "recently come into power" of Alfonsín.
This is a brilliant exposition of Bentham and Mill. Thanks for posting!
I cam across these lectures, thay are fantastic. These concepts are being tested everyday in the world of social media, and the current cancel culture. Lots to think about for sure.
What a great lecturer!
Nice! Thank you for this post, @Philosophy Overdose. Let me suggest as well the course on The Moral Foundations of Politics by Ian Shapiro (from Yale), which fantastic.
WoW! Oh my goodness. Such a great lecture and a classy vocabulary session.
Please upload the rest of the Pro Charles W. Anderson course if you have access to it. Thanks a lot.
This is amazing
Awesome thanks! Is the lecture on Locke up/available as well?
Wonderful lecture……. Albeit tongue-in-cheek where necessary, and could not be more prescient ….. the gentleman’s sonorous voice and erudite delivery much enjoyed….. it’s my “second time around” …….Miss jenny
Brilliance
39:00 perfect market=perfect utilitarianism
Was this entire course recorded? If so, do you have access to it? Or do we only get the social contract segment + this video? Either way, thanks for uploading.
Yes, the whole course was recorded. I don’t have all of them though, but I do have a bunch more.
@@Philosophy_Overdose Would you consider uploading what you have? I love Anderson's lecture style and I know I'm not the only one.
@@nathanschab4796 Yeah, he's a great lecturer! I'm not sure about putting them all up, but I'll certainly put up a more.
@@Philosophy_Overdose thank you!
Can you reupload that Heideggers TV speech on the topic of poets language?
czcams.com/video/jFLLymP3eiU/video.html
@@Philosophy_Overdose Thank you :)
Good post. Infermative for layman ljke me.
37:29 - true
If Bentham WAS stuffed and displayed in a case... that doesn't seem utilitarian, does it?
Don't fully agree on the overall way that Bentham's theory was portrayed here. The qualitative aspect of pains and pleasures take a much bigger place on Bentham's theory, not just a side-topic or a detail as we may understand from this video. Bentham would never agree with enslavement of a minority for the benefit of majority as he tried to elaborate a kind of taxonomy of pain and pleasures that the Professor briefly referred to. There are some other videos on CZcams that examine this aspect of "virtue" on Utilitarianism that are worth watching. Well, if we read IPML we will see this very clearly as well. Utilitarianism today is much more possible than in the past, scientific developments of various scientific fields allow us to better measure of the impact of human behaviour. So I wouldn't say that there is that much uncertainty around Utilitarianism, subjectivism is clearly loosing ground when we talk about most of human activities today (health, environment, public safety, education, etc.). Orthodox liberals of course will not like this as this open the doors for more State intervention, that's why Utilitarianism is always referred en passant, instead of being further developed by scholars.
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