benthamism
/'benθәmizәm/
📖 中文释义
- n. 功利主义, 边沁学说
🔗 释义中的汉语词
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n. That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by
- Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated
- and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility
- to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which
- influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient
- explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.