Science and Religion
Science and Religion
Drawing upon various writings, published and unpublished, early and late, on logic, ontology, and language, this chapter elucidates the metaphysical framework of Bentham's utilitarianism and identifies the suppositions which shaped it. In doing so, it provides evidence for the view that throughout his long life the principles of his theory of knowledge and his critique of religion were intimate parts of a single system, that the nature — and especially the implicit atheism — of the latter cannot be comprehended without recourse to the former.
Keywords: logic, ontology, language, utilitarianism, religion, atheism
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