J. Nathan Matias 🦣This weekend I learned about the life of Joseph Priestley, the chemist, philosopher, & co-founder of unitarianism who may also have inspired utilitarianism.
Priestley, who Bentham attributed (maybe wrongly?) the phrase the “greatest happiness of the greatest number,” also faced persecution. When his home & lab were burned, he moved to the US and spent his last days in Northumberland Pennsylvania — where I rode my bicycle this weekend on my way to see family.
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