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The word "happiness" can be as "weasel" a word as "social". Jeremy Bentham was a very
important voice in England that spoke about happiness in the late eighteenth century, and
then all the utilitarians rushed after him. But Bentham's notion of happiness was
critically different than, say, Jefferson's. There is indeed a wide berth between the
individual and State-limiting right to the "pursuit of happiness" and the indefinitely
expanding role of a State trying to achieve "the greatest happiness of the greatest
number".
 
Carlos Rodríguez Braun 
 
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