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Jeremy Bentham

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Noun1.Jeremy BenthamJeremy Bentham - English philosopher and jurist; founder of utilitarianism (1748-1831)


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IF YOU'D LIKE TO pay your respects to Jeremy Bentham, the ur-utilitarian and social reformer, head to the campus of University College London, where his dessicated, wax-headed corpse rests inside a glass cabinet.
Ethicists Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill developed and championed utilitarian ethics.
Referencing numerous philosophers and theorists, with frequent gravitation to Immanuel Kant and Jeremy Bentham for purposes of comparison and contrast, Dershowitz cuts his own path through the wilderness of rights theory.
 
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