Such an understanding involved no longer considering ourselves as a special part of creation, but as just a part of nature.
He was one of the first atheist philosophers and wanted to devise a morality that would reflect an atheistic understanding of what it meant to be human. Jeremy Bentham invented the first form of Utilitarianism – Act utilitarianism. Ethics This page: full notes A* summary notes C/B summary notes Bentham’s Act utilitarianism