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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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr Tim Causer invites readers to help complete a transcription project and to explore the writings and correspondence of the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham Your article on the digitisation ...

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 ...