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Creemos que nuestra época es la más grande de la historia de la humanidad, llena de una originalidad que parece ilimitada, pero este dinamismo no es una característica necesaria de las grandes épocas. Entre las civilizaciones más duraderas y estables ha estado la Europa medieval. La...

John Stuart Mill is remembered today as the leading exponent of Utilitarianism, arguing that our aim in life must be the attainment of pleasure and the minimizing of pain for the majority of people. The principle that lies at the heart of Utilitarianism is "the greatest benefit of the greatest number" - an idea that perhaps seems self-evident today but one that was seen as radical within Mill’s own time. This central idea has become the unspoken founding principle of our modern way of life in the free Western democracies.