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9. Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (London; New york: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1982), 25-26, 21.
10. David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford University Press, 2000), 266, 295.
11. Jacques P. Thiroux, & Keith W. Krasemann, Ethics: Theory and Practice, 9th ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1998), 38, 44, 49.
12. John S. Mill, Utilitarianism, 2nd ed. (Indiana- polis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2001), 35.
13. Adam Smith, The Theoty of Moral Sentiments (3) (Beijing: Jiuzhou Press, 2006), 700.
14. Ibid., 670.
15. Ibid., 704.
16. Peter Singer, Practical Ethics, 2nd ed. (New York; Victoria: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 100.
17. Philip J. Ivanhoe, & Bryan W. Van Norden, Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (New York: Seven Bridge Press, 2001), 32.
18. Jacques P. Thiroux, & Keith W. Krasemann, Ethics: Theory and Practice, 9th ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1998), 39-40.
19. W. D. Hamilton, “The Evolution of Altruistic Behavior,” American Naturalist 896 (1963): 354-356.
20. Philip J. Ivanhoe, & Bryan W. Van Norden, Readings in Classical Chinese Philosiphy (New York: Seven Bridge Press, 2001), 19.
21. Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (London; New york: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1982), 321.
22. Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. (2007/C 303/01). EUR-Lex. http://eur-lex.europa.eu
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23. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings (Beijing: China University of Politics and Law Press, 2003), 52-53.
24. John S. Mill, Utilitarianism, 2nd ed. (Indiana- polis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2001), 55-57.
25. Ibid., 47.
26. Ibid., 14.
27. Jacques P. Thiroux, & Keith W. Krasemann, Ethics: Theory and Practice, 9th ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1998), 46.
28. Immanuel Kant, The moral law: groundwork of the metaphysic of morals, Translated by H. J. Paton. (London; New York: Routledge, 2005), 106.
29. Ibid., 69.
30. Ibid., 70.
31. Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (London; New york: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1982), 312.
32. By comparison, the song of Internationale said, “No savior from on high delivers,” “the internationale unites the human race.”
33. Peter Singer, Practical Ethics, 2nd ed. (New York; Victoria: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 182.
34. Ibid., 182.
35. Ibid., 160-161.
36. Immanuel Kant, The moral law: groundwork of the metaphysic of morals, Translated by H. J. Paton. (London; New York: Routledge, 2005), 97.