Jeremy Bentham: como medir os prazeres e as dores cálculo da felicidade

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Otaviani, Márcia Cristina
• Orientador(a): Ferraz, Márcia Helena Mendes
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em História da Ciência
• Departamento: História da Ciência
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ciência moral; Jeremy Bentham; Princípio da utilidade; Cálculo da felicidade; Bentham, Jeremy > 1748-1832 > Critica e interpretacao; Etica; Felicidade; Utilitarismo
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: History of science; Moral science; Utility principle; Felicific calculus
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA::HISTORIA DAS CIENCIAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13388

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was na English philosopher who wrote about how human actions should be treated. He believed only two sovereign masters should govern us all. Pleasure and pain should tell us what is right and what is wrong. Bentham thought that every man seeks actions to maximize pleasure and diminish pain. The author believed that human actions could be treated in a scientific fashion. To his objective, he proposed a moral science and, as a criteria to measure the masters which manage human actions Bentham developed a theory to quantify pleasure and pain. Such calculus will be presented in this paper in a manner to verify its characteristics. Hereby, we will demonstrate how science and art were understood by the author, as well as, his thoughts regarding logic, language and how knowledge has been perceived by man