The skeletal body of Jeremy Bentham sits on public display in a glass-fronted case at University College London. Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, left careful instructions for the use of his ...

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“Jeremy Bentham” (France, modeled 1830, cast in bronze before 1844), medalist: Pierre Jean David d’Angers, cast by Eck et Durand (courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art) This coming spring, Bentham’s ...

Since University College London began transcribing the papers of the Enlightenment philosopher Jeremy Bentham more than 50 years ago, it has published 27 volumes of his writings less than half of the ...

In Monday’s post, I quoted Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner quoting Jeremy Bentham. Although Bentham studied, wrote about and criticized the law, he did not practice it. He is most famously ...

Is morality – and happiness – determined by how you affect the people around you? Shutterstock It is a word we hear from time to time, but few of us know what it means. Utilitarianism is the method ...

I have a dim recollection of Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian philosophy from a course in college. Utilitarianism appealed to me at a time when I was more certain of myself intellectually and more ...

About the author:Christopher C. Heathwood is the author of the chapter: "Subjective theories of well-being" and is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado ...