Jeremy Bentham person
also: Bentham
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Philosophic Radicals documented
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“The friendship of Bentham and James Mill... confirm the point.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.78
Sidney Webb relationship_with
Jeremy Bentham documented
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“to have had Bentham for his first teacher…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.82
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He supported eugenics policies and a technocratic state, even used the terminology. He's the guy who originated the phrase, the inevitability of gradualness. He would describe the Fabians as Latter-day Benthamites. That's a name for a philo…
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Bentham came up with a concept. Basically, he's the founder of modern utilitarianism and their underlying philosophy of utilitarianism is an act should be the greater good for the greatest number. And obviously that leads streamlined straig…
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He's the guy who popularized the phrase rule of law. He was a Benthamite, Jeremy Bentham, who was the founder of modern utilitarianism. Again, Dicey was the opponent to Irish home rule, opposed to women's suffrage, opposed to, he opposed wh…