bentham in English

noun

family name; Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), English legal scholar and philosopher, founder of utilitarianism

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1. I'm not taking any risks after Bentham died.

2. From Bentham to Benthamism* - Volume 28 Issue 1

3. Benthamism.—Jeremy Bentham, an English jurist and reformer, b

4. Benthamite (Noun) one that subscribes to the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham.

5. Was Jeremy Bentham an Antivivisectionist? In this post we look at whether or not Jeremy Bentham , an eminent 18 th and 19 th century English philosopher, was opposed to animal experiments

6. Benthamism definition is - the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham and his followers.

7. An example of Benthamism literature is A Fragment On Government by Jeremy Bentham.

8. What does Benthamite mean? Relating to the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham

9. Benthamite (comparative more Benthamite, superlative most Benthamite) Relating to the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham.

10. Jeremy Bentham is the founder of the British utilitarianism in the second half of 18~ ( th ) century.

11. Both thinkers are Absolutists in principle, though Hobbes gives to a monarch the power which Bentham gives to a democracy

12. There was a strong emphasis on efficiency based on the ideas of Jeremy Bentham and utilitarianism in all this legislation.

13. That utilitarianism needs some such additional clause to be in the intended spirit of Bentham is beyond doubt.

14. “Benthamism.”6 There are several scholars currently engaged in a close reading of Dumont’s Bentham as against the “esoteric Bentham” of the original manuscripts, and detailed studies of his distortions (sometimes deliberate, sometimes inadvertent) of Bentham’s texts have begun to emerge.7 What is clear is that Dumont produced only a

15. Sandel introduces the principles of Utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, with a famous 19th century law case involving a shipwrecked crew of four.

16. 28 That utilitarianism needs some such additional clause to be in the intended spirit of Bentham is beyond doubt.

17. Bentham shrank from the world in which he was easily Browbeaten to the study in which he could reign supreme

18. Benthamite utilitarianism Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), an English philosopher, entered Oxford University at the ripe age 12 and graduated from there at age 15.

19. THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTING JOHN CUNNINGHAM A chain of the former kind was termed by Bentham a self-Corroborative chain of evidence; the second, a …

20. Benthamism Jeremy Bentham an English jurist and reformer, born at Houndsditch, London, 15 February, 1748; died in London 6 June, 1832, was of middle-class parentage

21. But fully two centuries before, the Enlightenment thinker Jeremy Bentham had exposed the indefensibility of customary practices such as the cruelty to animals.

22. ‘Two suppressed poems of this period oppose Benthamite reform.’ noun A person who supports the philosophical system of utilitarianism proposed by the English philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham.

23. In Sidgwick’s view, Bentham was the pre-eminent representative of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and Benthamism was ‘the legacy left to the nineteenth century by the eighteenth’, being the force against

24. Charles Widmore makes contact with Locke, provides him with the alias "Jeremy Bentham", and assigns Matthew Abaddon as his assistant to find the survivors that left the island, also known as the Oceanic Six.

25. Benthamism n the philosophy of utilitarianism as first expounded by Jeremy Bentham in terms of an action being good that has a greater tendency to augment the happiness of the community than to diminish it ♦ Benthamite n, adj

26. Bĕn'thə-mĭz'əm The definition of Benthamism is the belief in the utilitarian concepts and philosophies of Jeremy Bentham that the goal of individuals and society should be the greatest happiness for the most people

27. Benthamism the philosophical theory of Jeremy Bentham that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility and that pleasure and pain are both the ultimate Standard of right and wrong and the fundamental motives influencing human actions and wishes.

28. And then you add: “But daaaaaaad, Jeremy Bentham was John Stuart Mill’s greatest influence and, consequentially, even though Mill proposed a slightly more-nuanced school of utilitarianism, we should still recognize that Benthamite utilitarianism is a viable philosophical perspective.” Don’t make me wash out your mouth with soap, buddy boy.

29. Benthamism the philosophy of utilitarianism as first expounded by the British philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham (1748--1832) in terms of an action being good that has a greater tendency to augment the happiness of the community than to diminish it Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

30. Benthamism ben′tham-izm, n. a name applied to the social and political doctrines of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), whose leading principle is the doctrine of utility, that happiness is identical with pleasure, summed up in Priestley's famous phrase, 'the greatest happiness of the greatest number.' How to pronounce Benthamism?

31. The first study of how Genevan Etienne Dumont, and his traumatic experience of the French Revolution, shaped the reception and presentation of '€~Benthamism' and masked the true face of Jeremy Bentham, one of the architects of modern society who visualised a new world based on the values of transparency, accountability, and economy.Â

32. Whilst Bentham maintains that pleasures and pains are “Addible” so that in any situa - tion the net result is a quantum of either pleasure or pain, Plato argues that although they “both admit of more and less” neither can be subtracted from the other because “the negation of pain will not be the same with

33. Stephen then notes an elaboration whereby our 'natural impulses are, Abstractedly considered, good, and only to be distinguished by their consequences' (Malthus 1803, 491), and illustrates: 'Hunger he says [paraphrasing Malthus 1803, 487], as Bentham had said, is the same in itself, whether it leads to stealing a loaf or to eating your own loaf, whereas the former alone has dire social consequences.