Bentham’s Happiness Research

Bentham’s happiness is inherited the "utility theory", it’s come from classical utilitarianism school in the 18 th century, it’s a kind of systematic theory, "the greatest happiness of most people" as the basic principle to guiding people to pursue their own interests, happiness, and it effectively balance the relations between the happiness of the society as a whole and the individual, it implements the benefit maximization.It’s theory produced in the vigorous of the British industrial revolution period, influenced by the Renaissance ideas, we can feel his thoughts have the strongly oppose autocracy and the trace of the theology of the middle ages, this article first introduces the Bentham happiness where come from and what going to do, which found that his main idea comes from the Hume Crete and Epicurus, that’s the Greek period, and modern Hume’s "human nature" and so on. Secondly, try my best to argument the basic ideas of the author to Bentham happiness, and also makes a detailed explanation. Gradually finding out and analyzing "Great for preventing bitter " as the premise of theory of human nature, and the idea of "the greatest happiness of most people" explanation, and the core of the utilitarian principle, expounds the connotation of the main ideas of the Bentham happiness. Again, it is pointed out that the limitations of Bentham’s happiness, in this chapter, the paper introduce the correction of Mill to Bentham thought, including the difference "advanced happy" and "low-level happy",and also about Mill’s free thought, and later introduce Rawls criticisms of Bentham utilitarianism, finally, I contact the practice of contemporary society, discusses briefly the individual how to achieve its happiness in the true sense under the harmonious socialist system, and how to deal with the relationship between personal interests and social interests, to better the implementation of the "Chinese dream" of socialism.Current China is in the social transformation period, the existing market economy needs to be improved, people pay more attention to how to safeguard interests of the people, and to realize the maximization of the social and economic benefits. Hope that through this article to the analysis of utilitarianism of happiness. We can discover from the article that effective solution to the current system of socialist market economy under the disparity between the rich and the poor of the problems and all kinds of immoral phenomena.