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Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy, and the Aristotelian tradition.
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Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
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Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as a founder of Western philosophy and the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought.
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Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill are the founders of Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism focuses on the results or consequences of a decision. It revolves around the concept of “ the end justifies the means”. It believes that outcomes as a result an action has a greater value compared to the latter. Utilitarianism promotes “ the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people.
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Thomas Hobbes is one of the philosophers of law whose concept are classified differently. He is considered to be supporter of natural law or positivistic, depending which the threads of his work is closely considered or particularly exposed. Legal positivism is the legal philosophy which argues that any laws are nothing more or nothing less than simply the expression of the will of whatever authority created them. Make positive laws as norms of morality.