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Problem regarding Utilitarianism

Can someone help me in finding out the right answer from the given options. However the idea that people seek happiness and try to evade pain dates back to Epicurus and other ancient Greeks, the individual generally acknowledged as the founder of the ‘modern’ school of thought termed as utilitarianism was: (1) John Stuart Mill. (2) Thorstein Veblen. (3) Jeremy Bentham. (4) William James. (5) Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

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