It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

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 ".

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.

One of the earliest legal positivists was Jeremy Bentham.

Bentham was an early and staunch supporter of the utilitarian concept ( along with Hume ), an avid prison reformer, advocate for democracy, and strongly atheist.

Walras ' conception of utility, like that of Menger, was that of usefulness in general, rather than the hedonic conception of Bentham or of Mill ; and Walras was more interested in the interaction of markets than in explaining the individual psyche.

Bentham criticized natural law theory because in his view it was a naturalistic fallacy, claiming that it described how things ought to be instead of how things are.

One of the early positivists was Jeremy Bentham, whose views were popularized by his student, John Austin.

It is possible that Bentham was spurred on to publish after he saw the success of Paley ’ s The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy.

From the beginning utilitarianism has recognized that certainty in such matters is unobtainable and both Bentham and Mill said that it was necessary to rely on the tendencies of actions to bring about consequences.

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.

Jeremy Bentham (; 15 February 1748 – 6 June 1832 ) was an English philosopher, jurist and social reformer.

Bentham was born in Houndsditch, London, into a wealthy family that supported the Tory party.

His 130-page tract was distributed in the colonies and contained an essay titled " Short Review of the Declaration " authored by Bentham, a friend of Lind's, which attacked and mocked the Americans ' political philosophy.

Bentham was in correspondence with many influential people.

Bentham was an outspoken critic of the revolutionary discourse of natural rights and of the violence that arose after the Jacobins took power ( 1792 ).

Bentham claimed to have borrowed this concept from the writings of Joseph Priestley, although the closest that Priestley in fact came to expressing it was in the form " the good and happiness of the members, that is the majority of the members of any state, is the great standard by which every thing relating to that state must finally be determined ".

Bentham said that it was the placing of women in a legally inferior position that made him choose, at the age of eleven, the career of a reformist.

Bentham is widely associated with the foundation in 1826 of the University of London ( the institution which 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.

A large painting by Henry Tonks hanging in UCL's Flaxman Gallery depicts Bentham approving the plans of the new university, but it was executed in 1922 and the scene is entirely imaginary.

Since 1959 ( when the Bentham Committee was first established ) UCL has hosted the Bentham Project, which is progressively publishing a definitive edition of Bentham's writings.

* February 15 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and writer ( d. 1832 )

In Geneva, these men were immersed in a reformed community that had no place for vestments at all, whereas the exiles who became Elizabethan bishops ( and thus had to accept the use of vestments ) never visited Geneva except for James Pilkington, Thomas Bentham and John Scory.

In A Fragment on Government Bentham says ‘ it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong ’ and describes this as a fundamental axiom.

He also introduced the concept of utility, later picked up on and developed by Jeremy Bentham.

In A Fragment on Government Bentham says ‘ it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong ’ and describes this as a fundamental axiom.

Bentham very carefully distinguishes motive from intention and says that motives are not in themselves good or bad but can be referred to as such on account of their tendency to produce pleasure or pain.

Bentham follows these statements with explanations on how antiquity, religion, reproach of innovation, metaphor, fiction, fancy, antipathy and sympathy, begging the question, and imaginary law are not justification for the creation of legislature.

Bentham did not object to medical experiments on animals, if the experiments had in mind a particular goal of benefit to humanity and had a reasonable chance of achieving that goal.

Transcribe Bentham has garnered international attention-such as in a feature article in The New York Times, and a radio broadcast on Deutsche Welle World radio.

Political philosopher John Rawls draws on the utilitarian insights of Bentham and Mill, the social contract ideas of John Locke, and the categorical imperative ideas of Kant.

By contrast the artistic work of antiquarians James Bentham and James Essex at the end of the century, while stopping short of being genuine archaeology, was detailed and precise enough to provide a substantial base of architectural fine detail on medieval castle features and enabled the work of architects such as Wyatt.

Though considered by some ( including Jeremy Bentham ) to be an indifferent judge, his Observations on the Statutes, chiefly the more ancient, from Magna Charta to 21st James I ( 1766 ), had a high reputation among historians and constitutional antiquaries, and ran through five editions down to 1796.

The Panopticon was intended to be cheaper than the prisons of his time, as it required fewer staff ; " Allow me to construct a prison on this model ," Bentham requested to a Committee for the Reform of Criminal Law, " I will be the gaoler.

On his return to England from Russia, Bentham continued to work on the idea of a Panopticon prison, and commissioned drawings from an architect, Willey Reveley.

Using government money, Bentham bought the land on behalf of the Crown for £ 12, 000 in November 1799.

In the Annual Review for 1808 two articles of his are traced — a " Review of Fox's History ," and an article on " Bentham's Law Reforms ," probably his first published notice of Bentham.

For example, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments, which proposed psychological explanations of individual behavior, including concerns about fairness and justice, and Jeremy Bentham wrote extensively on the psychological underpinnings of utility.

The Beruf unserer Zeit, in addition to the more specific object the treatise had in view, which has been already treated, expresses the idea, unfamiliar in 1814, that law is part and parcel of national life, and combats the notion, too much assumed by French jurists, especially in the 18th century, and countenanced in practice by Bentham, that law might be arbitrarily imposed on a country irrespective of its state of civilization and history.

( His view proved very influential on the founders and best proponents of utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.

Helvétius also exerted some influence on the utilitarian Jeremy Bentham.

Jeremy Bentham argued for a disciplinary, punitive approach to social problems, whilst the writings of Thomas Malthus focused attention on overpopulation, and the growth of illegitimacy.

When Jeremy Bentham called on him, he was found playing battledore.

In political economy he was a utilitarian on the lines of John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham.