Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725). Treatise II. Concerning Moral Good and Evil, sec. 3, 8

In the effort to explain how Bentham envisaged that politics ought to be guided by the principle of utility, one has first to consider some of his social, moral and legal theoretical propositions, which seem to be interwoven with the, political in nature, answer. To begin with, humans, selfish creatures as they are, seek their own-individual happiness. This is the foundation of the principle of utility, which can also justify the means by which a community can achieve welfare. The greatest happiness for the greatest number is also morally obligatory. Nonetheless, a community cannot rest itself in the moral willpower of the people. Law has to be enforced through government, which is the focal institution that should rather guide society to achieve its ends; through the principle of utility, of course. However the law has to be precise, clarified, and codified. Nevertheless, given that power tends to corrupt, then, democracy seems as the only system of governance compatible with t

his principle. Lastly, it is up to us, the citizens, to make such a form of government work efficiently in our services.

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