Assertion: reasoning's origin | /r/HasProperty | traced
Facets:
value: as far as epicurus
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The origins of utilitarianism can be traced back as far as Epicurus, but, as a school of thought, it is credited to Jeremy Bentham, who found that "nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure"; then, from that moral insight, he derived the Rule of Utility: "that the good is whatever brings the greatest happiness to the greatest number of people".