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Jeremy Bentham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Jeremy Bentham ... (February 15, 1748 - June 6, 1832) was an English gentleman, jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He is best known as an early advocate of utilitarianism and animal rights, who influenced the development of liberalism. ..." |
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| 15 Feb 1748, in Spitalfields, London, England |
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| 6 Jun 1832, in London, England |
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Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832
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Bentham, by John Stuart Mill, London and Westminster Review, Aug 1838
"He was a man both of remarkable endowments for philosophy, and of remarkable deficiencies for it; fitted, beyond almost any man, for drawing from his premises, conclusions not only correct, but sufficiently precise and specific to be practical; but whose general conception of human nature and life furnished him with an unusually slender stock of premises." |
Reasoning on the Nature of Things, by Clarence B. Carson, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Feb 1982
"Jeremy Bentham said of those who believed in natural law that they 'take for their subject the pretended law of nature; an obscure phantom, which in the imaginations of those who go in chase of it, points sometimes to manners, sometimes to laws; sometimes to what law is, and sometimes to what it ought to be.'" |
The Courts and the New Deal, Part 1, by William L. Anderson, Freedom Daily, Jun 2005
Related Topics: William Blackstone
"Perhaps it is deeply ironic that in 1776, the same year the Declaration of Independence was written, the 'champion' of modern law made his own intellectual debut in England. Jeremy Bentham, who sat in Blackstone's Oxford lectures as a student, penned an anonymous attack on Blackstone entitled 'A Fragment on Government.'" |
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