Jeremy Bentham (/ˈbɛnθəm/; 4 February 1747/8 O.S. [15 February 1748 N.S.] – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded...
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John Locke (Lost) (redirect from Jeremy Bentham (Lost))
Charles Widmore makes contact with Locke, provides him with the alias "Jeremy Bentham", and assigns Matthew Abaddon as his assistant to find the survivors...
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"The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham" is the seventh television episode of the fifth season of ABC's Lost. The 93rd episode of the show overall, it aired...
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Panopticon (category Jeremy Bentham)
control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution...
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Yorkshire Bentham (surname) → Jeremy Bentham, 18th century English philosopher and founder of modern Utilitarianism Bentham (One Piece), a character in...
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The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham is a series of volumes under production at the Bentham Project which, when complete, will form a definitive edition...
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sibling of philosopher Jeremy Bentham, with whom he had a close bond. Samuel Bentham was one of two surviving children of Jeremiah Bentham. His father was an...
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Felicific calculus (section Bentham's instructions)
philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) for calculating the degree or amount of pleasure that a specific action is likely to induce. Bentham, an ethical...
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Legal positivism (section Jeremy Bentham)
elaborated in the 18th and 19th centuries by legal philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham and John Austin, who argued that a law is valid not because it is intrinsically...
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Mummy (section Jeremy Bentham)
salt, nuts, seeds, roots, pine bark, and urushi tea. In the 1830s, Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, left instructions to be followed upon...
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Common law (section Jeremy Bentham)
but did not make new law. The term "judge-made law" was introduced by Jeremy Bentham as a criticism of this pretense of the legal profession. Many notable...
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Bentham, Jeremy. "Anarchical Fallacies" (PDF). p. line. 229. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2012. Bentham, Jeremy...
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Utilitarianism (category Jeremy Bentham)
often defined in terms of well-being or related concepts. For instance, Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, described utility as the capacity of...
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Offences Against One's Self, the nineteenth-century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham provided the following definition of the term: There was a particular...
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February 1825, from the poet Thomas Campbell to the MP and follower of Jeremy Bentham, Henry Brougham. Campbell had visited the university at Bonn in today's...
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Classical school (criminology) (section Bentham)
the Enlightenment by the utilitarian and social-contract philosophers Jeremy Bentham and Cesare Beccaria. Their interests lay in the system of criminal justice...
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Philosophy of happiness (section Jeremy Bentham)
particular attempts of happiness without the interference of society. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) was a British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer....
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that individual experiences of pleasure and pain can be quantified, Jeremy Bentham proposed the hedonistic calculus as a method to combine various episodes...
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Bentham was born in Stoke, Plymouth, on 22 September 1800. His father, Sir Samuel Bentham, a naval architect, was the only brother of Jeremy Bentham to...
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degree-awarding powers) by founders who were inspired by the radical ideas of Jeremy Bentham, UCL was the first university institution to be established in London...
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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (category Jeremy Bentham)
theorist Jeremy Bentham "originally printed in 1780, and first published in 1789." Bentham's "most important theoretical work," it is where Bentham develops...
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proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by his predecessor Jeremy Bentham. He contributed to the investigation of scientific methodology, though...
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The Spirit of the Age (section Jeremy Bentham)
to be translated into English." —William Hazlitt, "Jeremy Bentham", The Spirit of the Age Bentham's refined and elaborated logic fails, in Hazlitt's assessment...
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Timothy L. S., ed. (2017) [1968]. "Jeremy Bentham to Samuel Bentham, 15 Feb. 1776". The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham: Volume I: 1752–76 (PDF). London:...
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Panopticon is a prison design by Jeremy Bentham (1786). Panopticon may also refer to: Britannia Panopticon or The Panopticon...
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British philosophy (section Jeremy Bentham)
during this time he wrote and published The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) is well known for beginning the tradition of classical utilitarianism...
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Pearl Jam's song "Jeremy" Jeremy Bentham, an alias used by John Locke in Lost Jeremy Finch, a character in To Kill a Mockingbird Jeremy "Germy" Kidd, in...
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Five Types of Ethical Theory. Older usage of the term goes back to Jeremy Bentham, who coined it prior to 1816 as a synonym of dicastic or censorial ethics...
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Speciesism (section Jeremy Bentham)
born by the same stern law, / Suffer like me, and like me also die." Jeremy Bentham was the first Western philosopher to advocate for animals' equal consideration...
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say, in all we think... — Jeremy Bentham, The Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789) Ch I, p 1 In summary, Jeremy Bentham states that people are driven...
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