Jeremy Bentham#
Summary#
Nietzsche presents Bentham as the originator whose footsteps the English utilitarians follow ponderously and respectably. The utilitarian philosophers stalk along in Bentham’s path just as he himself had stalked in the footsteps of Helvetius, producing a tedious moral philosophy devoid of new thought or finer expression, which Nietzsche dismisses as an “impossible literature” unless leavened with some mischief.