SOURCE: “Ethics and the Science of Legislation,” in Secular Utilitarianism: Social Science and the Critique of Religion in the Thought of Jeremy Bentham, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. 66-98.
In the following excerpt, Crimmins views the scientific basis of Bentham's utility principle and its hostility toward religious ethics.
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