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Two answers required. An essay by one of these thinkers pairs the other with Coleridge as the “seminal minds” of their age. A claim made by one of these thinkers is the subject of a “proof” by the other based on an analogy between being “visible” and “desirable,” which G. E. Moore cited as a case of the naturalistic fallacy. One of these thinkers was quoted by the other as calling poetry no better than the game push-pin and led the Philosophical Radicals with the other’s father James. (10[1])These are the two thinkers (-5[1])most discussed as exemplars of a view contrasted with intuitionism and egoism in Henry Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics. These thinkers differed on whether there are higher and lower pleasures in their versions of the greatest happiness principle. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])Panopticon and On Liberty are respectively by what two founders of utilitarianism? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Jeremy Bentham AND John Stuart Mill [accept J. S. Mill in place of “John Stuart Mill”]
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