I really enjoyed reading this, and learned a lot about Bentham I didn’t know (which wasn’t a lot, since I haven’t spent a lot of time studying him). I get the sense that his ideas on utilitarianism are convergent with, say, typical virtue ethics in the limit, only he get there by a different route. I also get the sense he didn’t foresee super-optimization and was very much thinking about humans who do something closer to satisficing.
I really enjoyed reading this, and learned a lot about Bentham I didn’t know (which wasn’t a lot, since I haven’t spent a lot of time studying him). I get the sense that his ideas on utilitarianism are convergent with, say, typical virtue ethics in the limit, only he get there by a different route. I also get the sense he didn’t foresee super-optimization and was very much thinking about humans who do something closer to satisficing.