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James Mill’s education of his son was in strict conformity with the recommendations of Helvétius. The instilling of Bentham’s unqualified version of the greatest happiness principle was a central ingredient in it. That principle was used by Bentham in a radically critical way to undermine conventional assumptions. John Stuart Mill came to turn the kind of rationalism it exemplified against the principle itself.
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Quinton, A. (1973). John Stuart Mill. In: Utilitarian Ethics. New Studies in Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00248-1_4
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