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Jeremy Bentham, categorised links; The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Archived 12 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine has an extensive biographical reference of Bentham. "Jeremy Bentham at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2007" Archived 30 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine A play-reading of the life and legacy of Jeremy Bentham.
1789. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation is a book by the English philosopher and legal theorist Jeremy Bentham "originally printed in 1780, and first published in 1789." [1] Bentham's "most important theoretical work," [2] it is where Bentham develops his theory of utilitarianism and is the first major book on the topic.
A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, ... Jeremy Bentham, ...
The Collected Works is intended to supersede the 11-volume The Works of Jeremy Bentham (1838–1843), edited by Bentham's friend and literary executor, John Bowring, which is now considered to be flawed in many points of detail, and which omits Bentham's writings on religion; and also the 3-volume Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings (1952–54) edited by Werner Stark, which has likewise been ...
Hedonism. The felicific calculus is an algorithm formulated by utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) for calculating the degree or amount of pleasure that a specific action is likely to induce. Bentham, an ethical hedonist, believed the moral rightness or wrongness of an action to be a function of the amount of pleasure or pain ...
Legal positivism. In jurisprudence and legal philosophy, legal positivism is the theory that the existence of the law and its content depend on social facts, such as acts of legislation, judicial decisions, and customs, rather than on morality. This contrasts with natural law theory, which holds that law is necessarily connected to morality in ...
List of episodes. " The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham " is the seventh television episode of the fifth season of ABC 's Lost. [3] The 93rd episode of the show overall, it aired on February 25, 2009, on ABC in the United States, being simulcast on A in Canada. [4] The episode was written by showrunners and executive producers Damon Lindelof ...
English utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), early proponent of sentientism. The 18th-century utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham was among the first to argue for sentientism. [3] He maintained that any individual who is capable of subjective experience should be considered a moral subject. [4]