Jeremy Bentham, best known for his advocacy of utilitarianism

In summary, Jeremy Bentham states that people are driven by their interests and their fears, but their interests take precedence over their fears, and their interests are carried out in accordance with how people view the consequences that might be involved with their interests.

Hedonism, for example, teaches that this feeling is pleasure — either one's own, as in egoism ( the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes ), or everyone's, as in universalistic hedonism, or utilitarianism ( the 19th-century English philosophers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick ), with its formula of the " greatest pleasure of the greatest number.

Jeremy Bentham, who is regarded as the founder of utilitarianism, argues that animals can experience pleasure and pain, thus demanding that ' non-human animals ' should be a serious object of moral concern.

* Jeremy Bentham ( 1748 – 1832 )

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeremy Bentham, Florence Nightingale and even Queen Victoria are reputed to have stayed there, although there is no real evidence for this.

Jeremy Bentham and James Mill, although advocates of laissez-faire, non-intervention in foreign affairs, and individual liberty, believed that social institutions could be rationally redesigned through the principles of Utilitarianism.

The central concept of utilitarianism, which was developed by Jeremy Bentham, was that that public policy should seek to provide " the greatest happiness of the greatest number ".

Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill are influential proponents of this school of thought.

His statement of the Ethic of Reciprocity as the foundation of ethics is the earliest in Ancient Greece, and he differs from the formulation of utilitarianism by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill by emphasizing the minimization of harm to oneself and others as the way to maximize happiness.

Bulwer-Lytton began his career as a follower of Jeremy Bentham.

* 1748 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher ( d. 1832 )

Social reformer Jeremy Bentham wrote the first known argument for homosexual law reform in England around 1785, at a time when the legal penalty for buggery was death by hanging.

The most influential contributors to this theory are considered to be Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.

The 18th and 19th-century British philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill defended the ethical theory of utilitarianism, according to which we should perform whichever action maximizes the aggregate good.

* One school, grouped around Jeremy Bentham, defends a quantitative approach.

Philosophers who have criticized the concept of human rights include Jeremy Bentham, Edmund Burke, Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx.

Jeremy Bentham | Bentham's utilitarian theories remained dominant in law until the twentieth century

One of the earliest legal positivists was Jeremy Bentham.

Historically, utilitarian thinking about law is associated with the great philosopher, Jeremy Bentham.

( In England, economists tended to conceptualize utility in keeping with the Utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham and later of John Stuart Mill.

Moralists Jeremy Bentham and Immanuel Kant both indicated the is – ought problem in order to identify their theories of morality and law.

Nonetheless, the implication of natural law in the common law tradition has meant that the great opponents of natural law and advocates of legal positivism, like Jeremy Bentham, have also been staunch critics of the common law.

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In addition, late-season call up Jeremy Hermida, a highly-regarded prospect who has been compared to the Atlanta Braves ' Jeff Francoeur, hit a pinch-hit grand slam in his first major-league at-bat and a game-tying two-run homer in the last game of the season.

The first of these included The Space Quest Companion by Peter and Jeremy Spear.

In 1977, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first radio adaptation of the four-act version of the play ; directed by Ian Cotterell, it featured Fabia Drake as " Lady Bracknell ", Richard Pasco as " Jack Worthing ", Jeremy Clyde as " Algernon Moncrieff ", Maurice Denham as " Rev.

Close received her first Grammy nomination ( shared with Jeremy Irons ) in 1985 for Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for The Real Thing.

The claim for the women's vote appears to have been first made by Jeremy Bentham in 1817 when he published his Plan of Parliamentary Reform in the form of a Catechism and was taken up by William Thompson in 1825, when he published, with Anna Wheeler, An Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery: In Reply to Mr. Mill's Celebrated Article on Government.

It set up the Bentham Project to undertake the task, and the first volume in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham was published in 1968.

He has been the subject of two films by Jeremy Marre, the first on Graceland, the second on The Capeman.

The album was also preceded by its first single, " No Phone ", which hit number 13 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart ; the song covered the ubiquitous and privacy-invading use of cell phones, and was described by Jeremy Mahadevan of the New Straits Times as " a traditionally minimalist Cake anthem, with a killer melody and, unique to this album, fairly extensive use of synths ".

Four players have hit a grand slam on their first major-league at-bat: Bill Duggleby in 1898, Jeremy Hermida of the Florida Marlins, Kevin Kouzmanoff, then playing for the Cleveland Indians, off Edinson Volquez of the Texas Rangers on September 2, 2006, and Daniel Nava, then playing for the Boston Red Sox, off Joe Blanton of the Philadelphia Phillies on June 12, 2010.

Its eight founders and first officers were Nicholas Easton, William Coddington, John Clarke, John Coggeshall, William Brenton, Jeremy Clark, Thomas Hazard, and Henry Bull.

The first two stories were filmed in 1985, with Jeremy Brett as Holmes, and David Burke as Watson, and the third in 1986 with Edward Hardwicke taking over the role of Watson.

At the end of the first season, Jeremy Gelbwaks ' family moved out of the Los Angeles area, and the part of Chris was recast with actor Brian Forster.

The first of her two subsequent marriages was to comedy writer Jeremy Lloyd ( Are You Being Served?

This was the first time that four parties were represented on the council and the Mayor of Kingston Jeremy Thorn officially opened the new Independent Group's office at the Guildhall.

A documentary about Gaye – What's Going On: The Marvin Gaye Story – was a UK / PBS co-production, directed by Jeremy Marre and was first broadcast in 2006 ; two years later, the special re-aired with a different production and newer interviews after it was re-broadcast as an American Masters special.

After the sudden retirement of Jeff King, the Royals offered the first base job to rookie Jeremy Giambi.

-the First 40 Hits, a collection of Erasure's first 40 hits plus a new remix of " Always " by Jeremy Wheatley, was released on 23 February 2009.

This was the first Partridge Family album featuring Brian Forster ( replacing Jeremy Gelbwaks as Chris Partridge ) on the album cover.

Jeremy Gelbwaks played the original Chris Partridge but left the show after the first season because his parents were moving to another state.

Pip Torrens first played Major Rich in " The Mystery of the Spanish Chest " ( 1991 ), and then returned to the series to play Jeremy Cloade in Taken at the Flood ( 2006 ).

The use of these rooms has been the subject of academic debate: historian Arnold Taylor argued that the first floor of the gatehouse was used by the constable as living accommodation, with the second floor used by senior visitors ; Jeremy Ashbee has since challenged this interpretation, suggesting the high status accommodation may instead have been located within the inner ward, and the gatehouse used for other purposes.

** Jeremy McGrath made his first appearance at the X Games, winning gold in motorcross step Up, and bronze in supermoto.

Jeremy Caddick, the Dean of Emmanuel College, announced that Emmanuel's chapel would be open to the blessing of same-sex civil partnerships — becoming the first in the Church of England to do so.