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Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end in own words
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Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end in own words.
The vitality of any teaching, or historical movement, depends upon what it affirms rather than upon what it affinns rather than upon what it denies, and its survival and continued power will often mean that its positives are insufficiently regarded by opposing schools. The grand positives of Bentham were benevolence and veracity: the passion for the relief of man's estate, and the passion for truth. Bent ham's multifarious activities, pursued without abatement to the end of a long life, wee inspired by a "dominant and al-comprehensive desire for the amelioration of human life"; they wee inspired, too, by the belief that he had found the key to all moral truth. This institution, custom, this code, this system of legislation does it promotes human happiness? Then it is sound. This theory, creed, this moral teaching does it rightly explain why virtue is admirable, or why duty is obligatory? The limitation of Bentham can be gauged by his dismissal of all poetry (and most religion) as "misrepresentation, this is his negative side. But benevolence and veracity are Supreme Values, and if it falk to one of the deniers to be their special advocate, the believers must have long been drowsed. Bentham believes the Church teaches children irsincerity by making them affirm what they cannot possibly understand or mean. They promise, for example, to fulfill the undertaking of their god---parents, that they will renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanity of this wicked world" etc. The Devil" Bentham comments: " who or what is he, and how is it that he is renounced?" Has the child happened to have any dealings with him? Let the Archbishop of Canterbury tell us, and him further explain how his own "works" are distinguished from the aforesaid "Pomps and Vanity". What king, what Lords Temporal or Spiritual, have ever renounced themi (Basil Willey)
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(a) What does the writer mean by the following expressions: Multifarious activities, amelioration of human Life, it is sound, be their special advocate, Renounce the devil, drowsed, gauged, aforesaid.
(b) What is Bentham's philosophy based upon
(c) What according to the writer is Bentham's limitation? Teaches children insincerity?
(d) In what context has the Archbishop of Canterbury been quoted i.e is he praised or condemned?
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1. Multifarous activities means that activities are done in variety or diversity; there is no specific category or specifications.
The expression "desire of amelioration of life" means when a person desire to enhance his life, to improve or simply, for the betterment of life.
"It is sound" for me means that something is good. Something resulted to a positive outcome.
"Be their advocate" sounds like your are trying to encourage someone to be a part of a group. To support a certain belief or to unite with you for the same purpose.
"Renounce the devil" or to renounce means that you are to move or think past a certain belief you had before. To reject the idea that you once had about the devil. To abandon the thought.
"Drowsed" means to let pass. Or to be dull. To be inactive.
"To gauge someone" or the idea of being gauged means that you are testing or measuring someone on a certain level like belief or emotion or mood.
"Aforesaid" means mentioned before. Someone or something that has been named before.
2. Bentham's philosophy is based on a belief that happiness and pleasure are morally right.
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3. He believes that the church teaches children that a certain fulfillment is achieved when they follow the word of God. When they renounce the devil, when they follow their parents, but the fact that children has not encountered the devil makes him question the reality of it.
4. The archbishop or canterbury was condemned on this context because i think bentham also has a point. There are certain beliefs that are not the same within religious and non religious groups. We should minimize generalizing these beliefs.
