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Emmanuelle de Champs, « Madame de Staël and Utilitarianism », HAL-SHS : philosophie, ID : 10670/1.39zdnx
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The political and moral value of the principle of utility, as presented and developed by the English philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) at the turn of the eighteenth century, was a dividing lines in European Liberal circles. Among Madame de Staël's guests at Coppet, utilitarian ideas were promoted by Etienne Dumont and Samuel Romilly, both close friends and admirers of Bentham, while they were attacked by Madame de Staël and Benjamin Constant. This chapter maps out these debates and explains that Madame de Staël’s evident outward rejection of utilitarian principles conceals a life-long engagement with the ideas promoted by Bentham and Dumont in ethics and in politics.