Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was a person.
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- He was a Consequentialist.
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- See: Philosopher, Jurist, Social Reformer, Utilitarianism, Philosophy Of Law, Welfarism, Pleasure Utilitarinism.
References
2018
- The Economist | The worth of nations https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21741563-fourth-our-series-professions-shortcomings-economists-focus-too
- QUOTE: Around the time Adam Smith published his “Wealth of Nations”, Jeremy Bentham laid out the basis of a utilitarian approach, in which “it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong”. In the late 19th century Alfred Marshall declared the correct focus of economics to be the “attainment and…use of material requisites of well-being”. Or, as his student, Arthur Pigou, put it, “that part of social welfare that can be brought directly or indirectly into relation with the measuring rod of money”.
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham Retrieved:2014-3-7.
- Jeremy Bentham ( /ˈbɛnθəm/; – 6 June 1832) was a British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer. He is regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.
Bentham became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism. He advocated individual and economic freedom, the separation of church and state, freedom of expression, equal rights for women, the right to divorce, and the decriminalising of homosexual acts.[1] He called for the abolition of slavery, the abolition of the death penalty, and the abolition of physical punishment, including that of children.[2] He has also become known in recent years as an early advocate of animal rights. [3] Though strongly in favour of the extension of individual legal rights, he opposed the idea of natural law and natural rights, calling them "nonsense upon stilts". [4] Bentham's students included his secretary and collaborator James Mill, the latter's son, John Stuart Mill, the legal philosopher John Austin, as well as Robert Owen, one of the founders of utopian socialism. Bentham has been described as the "spiritual founder" of University College London, though he played little direct part in its foundation.[5]
- Jeremy Bentham ( /ˈbɛnθəm/; – 6 June 1832) was a British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer. He is regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.
- ↑ Bentham, Jeremy. "Offences Against One's Self", first published in Journal of Homosexuality, v.3:4(1978), p. 389–405; continued in v.4:1(1978).
- Also see Boralevi, Lea Campos. Bentham and the Oppressed. Walter de Gruyter, 1984, p. 37.
- ↑ Bedau, Hugo Adam (1983). "Bentham's Utilitarian Critique of the Death Penalty". The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 74 (3): 1033–1065. doi:10.2307/1143143.
- ↑ Sunstein, Cass R. "Introduction: What are Animal Rights?", in Sunstein, Cass R. and Nussbaum, Martha (eds.). Animal rights. Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 3–4. * Francione, Gary. Animals – Property or Persons", in Sunstein and Nussbaum 2005, p. 139, footnote 78. * Gruen, Lori. "The Moral Status of Animals", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1 July 2003. * Benthall, Jonathan. "Animal liberation and rights", Anthropology Today, volume 23, issue 2, April 2007, p. 1.
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- ↑ UCL Academic Figures.