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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • "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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  • 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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    (384–322 BC). In the late 18th century, Jeremy Bentham adapted the term ipse dixit into the word ipse-dixitism. Bentham coined the term to apply to all non-utilitarian...
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  • Expression entry for Casanova Beacon for Freedom of Expression search for Bentham Beacon for Freedom of Expression search for Heine Beacon for Freedom of...
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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: That property...
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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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  • utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham for calculating the degree or amount of pleasure that a specific action is likely to cause. Bentham, an ethical hedonist...
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    the English language. It was coined by the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham in his An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation,...
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  • 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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    sleeve or lapel to be prepared to play. Push-pin was immortalized by Jeremy Bentham when he wrote in The Rationale of Reward that: "Prejudice apart, the...
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    century." Mill took many elements of his version of utilitarianism from Jeremy Bentham, the great nineteenth-century legal reformer, who along with William...
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    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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  • "Nicomachean Ethics". 1998. USA: Oxford University Press. (1177a15) Bentham, Jeremy. The Principles of Morals and Legislation. 1988. Prometheus Books....
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    Ancient Greek: κακόs, "bad, wicked") originally proposed in 1818 by Jeremy Bentham, "As a match for utopia (or the imagined seat of the best government)...
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    Charles-François Toustain (1700–1754). The philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham wrote at the beginning of the 19th century: The falsehood of a writing...
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