Jeremy bentham

Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher, economist, and theoretical jurist, the earliest and chief expounder of utilitarianism, which states that an action is right if it tends to promote happiness and wrong if it tends to produce the reverse of happiness. Learn more about Bentham in this article.

The auto-icon of 18th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham will travel from London to NYC for an exhibition at the Met Breuer that explores the human body.

Loretta reports: Like anybody else who studied English history, I knew who Jeremy Bentham was. But I did not know he was still hangin...

University College London scientists are hunting down 26 memorial rings bequeathed by Jeremy Bentham to those he knew and admired, featuring his bust in silhouette and strands of his hair.

by the studio of Thomas Frye oil on canvas 1760 © National Portrait Gallery, London

The Panopticon is an architectural design for a prison. The structure was created by Jeremy Brenton in 1791. The Panopticon consists of a large tower surrounded by a circular (or octagonal, or…

Jeremy Bentham, British philosopher & social reformer

English liberal radical and historian. Influenced by David Ricardo, James Mill, and Jeremy Bentham. Especially interested in Greek history and philosophy.

In a dynamic demonstration of the motivating power of the written word, a ladies’ literary discussion group read The Subjection of Women in 1883. As soon as they had closed the book, they set up the Finnish Women’s Association to campaign for women in public life. It is not coincidental that in 1906 Finland became the first European country where women had the vote. J.S.Mill’s book is, with Marx’s Capital, one of the two most important political books written in Britain in the nineteenth…

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?" ~ Jeremy Bentham