Utilitarianism, a conception of morality developed primarily by Jeremy Bentham, James Mill and his son John Stuart Mill attempts to bring back personal inclinations and interests into moral consideration. 1 It is based upon a form of hedonism, an ethical doctrine implying that the ultimate good is pleasure and what has pleasurable consequences and that the pursuit of pleasure in itself is what can be considered the 'highest good' and proper aim for human life. ...

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Marx saw religion as part of the mitigating complex called "ideology," embodying "the natural inclination of those who benefit from injustice to show why the circumstance that creates it should remain unchanged" (138). ...

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