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    Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio (Italian: [ˈtʃeːzare bekkaˈriːa, ˈtʃɛː-]; 15 March 1738 – 28 November 1794) was an...
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    The population was 1,769 at the 2020 census. It is named in honor of Cesare Beccaria, an Enlightenment thinker. The township is located in southern Clearfield...
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  • Battista Beccario (15th-century), Genoese cartographer Cesare Beccaria, or Marquis of Beccaria-Bonesana (1738–1794), famous Italian jurist and philosopher...
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    Piazza Cesare Beccaria is a square of Florence located on the viali di Circonvallazione, the boulevard along the route of the former walls of Florence...
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    written by Cesare Beccaria in 1764. The treatise condemned torture and the death penalty and was a founding work in the field of penology. Beccaria and the...
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    himself from his predecessor and rival, Cesare Beccaria, by depicting his positivist school in opposition to Beccaria's classist one (which centred around...
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    le style by Cesare Beccaria (1771) Legs d'un père à ses filles by John Gregory (1774) Traité des délits et des peines de Cesare Beccaria (1765) V. Ph...
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    the utilitarian and social-contract philosophers Jeremy Bentham and Cesare Beccaria. Their interests lay in the system of criminal justice and penology...
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    the seminal pamphlet "On Crimes and Punishments" published by Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria in 1764. They center on the concept of proportionality. In this...
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    the mid-18th century and reflects ideas from utilitarian philosophy. Cesare Beccaria, author of On Crimes and Punishments (1763–64), Jeremy Bentham (inventor...
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    Crusca. The linguistic purism of the Accademia found opposition in Cesare Beccaria and the Verri brothers (Pietro and Alessandro), who through their journal...
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    an arcade to connect the Corso Vittorio Emmanuele II to the Piazza Cesare Beccaria dates back to before World War I; the initial objective was to create—like...
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    philosophical outlook is influenced by Karl Popper, John Stuart Mill, Cesare Beccaria, Thomas Paine, Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. He graduated in law...
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  • Cumberland: 104–106  John Gay: 179–181  Bernard Mandeville John Brown: 502  Cesare Beccaria Jeremy Bentham Thomas Cooper: 100–103  Soame Jenyns William Johnson...
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    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Some of figures of the Enlightenment included Cesare Beccaria, George Berkeley, Denis Diderot, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Lord Monboddo...
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    Gerolamo Cardano, Caravaggio, Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Stradivari, Cesare Beccaria, Alessandro Volta, and Alessandro Manzoni; and popes John XXIII and...
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    century, inaugurated with the publication of Dei delitti e delle pene by Cesare Beccaria. Love of liberty and desire for equality created a literature aimed...
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  • and was influenced by the Enlightenment thinking of Montesquieu and Cesare Beccaria. The principle of legality was foremost in the underlying philosophy...
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    was another of the most famous Italian Enlightenment figures: Cesare Beccaria. Beccaria's is the most famous work of the Italian Enlightenment: the juridical...
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    being the founder of modern Italian philosophy) and Antonio Genovesi. Cesare Beccaria was a significant Enlightenment figure and is now considered one of...
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    influential writer Pietro Verri. The poet's maternal grandfather, Cesare Beccaria, was a well-known author and philosopher, and his mother Giulia had...
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    eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinkers like Jeremy Bentham and Cesare Beccaria. Enlightenment thinkers were not universally opposed to public executions—many...
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  • Smith (1723–1790) Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) Thomas Paine (1737–1809) Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794) Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794) Francesco Mario Pagano...
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  • Utilitarianism Predecessors Mozi Shantideva David Hume Claude Adrien Helvétius Cesare Beccaria William Godwin Francis Hutcheson William Paley Key proponents Jeremy...
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    mathematisation of society. It rises to prominence at about the same time as Cesare Beccaria articulated the social principle of the greatest good for the greatest...
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  • Giambattista Toderini Pietro Verri Filippo Mazzei Ferrante de Gemmis Cesare Beccaria Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi Nicola Spedalieri Alessandro Verri Melchiorre...
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    Averroes Thomas Aquinas Alberico Gentili Francis Bacon William Blackstone Cesare Beccaria Jeremy Bentham Amina, bint al-Hajj ʿAbd al-Latif John Stuart Mill John...
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  • Utilitarianism Predecessors Mozi Shantideva David Hume Claude Adrien Helvétius Cesare Beccaria William Godwin Francis Hutcheson William Paley Key proponents Jeremy...
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    history to extract confessions from detainees. In 1764, Italian reformer Cesare Beccaria denounced torture as "a sure way to acquit robust scoundrels and to...
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  • Utilitarianism Predecessors Mozi Shantideva David Hume Claude Adrien Helvétius Cesare Beccaria William Godwin Francis Hutcheson William Paley Key proponents Jeremy...
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