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>>13572326
How does it not make sense?
Because he wasn’t a wealthy industrialist? Pardon. Let me try to explain my train of thought.
There is also a tendency in the sciences, including philosophy, to be cold and clinical. Bentham, as far as I have heard, promoted capitalism as a way to make the world better. Like the rest of them he was blind to the social/psychological impact of what was happening. But there were clearly people who saw the new systems thornier side. Owen for one