If you answered in the affirmative to these questions, then you might be a utilitarian, the moral system founded by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) and encapsulated in the principle of “the greatest good for the greatest number.”
Which philosophers are associated with utilitarianism?
Utilitarianism is a tradition of ethical philosophy that is associated with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, two late 18th- and 19th-century British philosophers, economists, and political thinkers.
Did Aristotle believe in utilitarianism?
why they were not utilitarians:
The criteria for being a utilitarian are not universally agreed; Mill called Aristotle a 'judicious utilitarian,' although Aristotle never used the term 'utility' but talked of eudaemonia; Hume used the term utility a good deal, but is not best understood as a utilitarian.