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Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.
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culture · English philosopher and jurist (1748–1832) · philosopher · merchant · lawyer · political scientist · suffragist · human rights defender · jurist · animal rights advocate · writer · economist · also Jeremy Bentham, Gamaliel Smith, Philip Beauchamp, Bentham
Born 15 February 1749 · Died 6 June 1832 · Q60887
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“The ascendancy of the English is an ascendancy of wisdom and understanding:—it is the same ascendancy that a Brahmin has over a Parias—a European over a Brahmin—and an Englishman over another European”
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“it was in the long-term interests of India to be governed by a civilized nation like Britain”
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The auto-icon was put into a new glass display case and moved to the entrance of UCL's new Student Centre on Gordon Square
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Volumes 1–5 were re-published in open access by UCL Press
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However, the body was present at Grant's final council meeting
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“Jeremy Bentham at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2007”
The abstract stated that Bentham's essay was the "first known argument for homosexual law reform in England"
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The Bentham Committee was established under the auspices of University College London with the aim of producing a definitive edition of Bentham's writings
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But Paederasty was not published until 1978
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“The History of Freedom in Antiquity”
Died 1832-06-06.
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“Priestley was the first (unless it was Beccaria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth — that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.”
“If a country gentleman has rows of trees leading to his dwelling, the auto-icons of his family might alternate with the trees; copal varnish would protect the face from the effects of rain.”
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Bentham left instructions for his body to be first dissected and then to be permanently preserved as an "auto-icon" (or self-image), which would be his memorial
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“Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.”
Instructing Thomas Southwood Smith to create the auto-icon, was attached to his last will, dated 30 May 1832
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Bentham described himself as "at heart more of a United-States-man than an Englishman"
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Of London University (the institution that, in 1836, became University College London), though he was 78 years old when the university opened and played only an indirect role in its establishment
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Co-founded The Westminster Review with James Mill as a journal for the "Philosophical Radicals"—a group of younger disciples through whom Bentham exerted considerable influence in British public life
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John Cartwright proposed to Bentham that they serve as "Guardians of Constitutional Reform", seven "wise men" whose reports and observations would "concern the entire Democracy or Commons of the United Kingdom"
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To volunteer to write a complete legal code for the young country
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And 1812 returned specifically to the idea of a panopticon
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Pitt resigned from office, and in 1803 the new Addington administration decided not to proceed with the project
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Studied at Westminster School (1755–1760).
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Studied at The Queen's College (1760).
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Born 1749-02-15.
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