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“The greatest happiness for the greatest number.” It seems self evident, but actually it took the genius of Jeremy Bentham to put it into words. In this docu-drama, we can enter into the roles of those who helped Bentham to find answers to important questions in all our lives, and so find answers for ourselves.

We meet key people in Bentham’s life, and through this discover what concerned him, and how he achieved an integrated understanding. Finally, in an epilogue, we meet several historic people and then our own contemporaries. All of them give examples of his deep influence on our own lives. We are reminded not only about how Bentham lives through institutions like the United Nations and the International Court of Justice, but also through ideas like multiculturalism and resolving dispute through negotiation rather than force.

For further information about the docu-dramas performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe please visit www.livingphilosophy.org.uk.