Secular Utilitarianism: Social Science and the Critique of Religion in the Thought of Jeremy Bentham

Crimmins, James E.

ISBN 10: 0198277415 / ISBN 13: 9780198277415

Published by Clarendon Press, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Secular Utilitarianism: Social Science and the Critique of Religion in the Thought of Jeremy Bentham
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198277415
• ISBN 13: 9780198277415
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Jeremy Bentham was an ardent secularist convinced that society could be sustained without the support of religious institutions or beliefs. This book illustrates the nature, extent, and depth of Bentham's concern with religion, from his Oxford days of first doubts through the middle years of quiet unbelief to the zealous atheism and secularism of his later life. Crimmins provides an interpretation of Bentham's thought in which his religious views are shown to be integral: on the one hand, intimately associated with the metaphysical, epistemological, and psychological principles which gave shape to his system as a whole, and, on the other, central to the development of his entirely secular view of society.

About the Author

James E. Crimmins is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Huron College, Ontario.