Jeremy Bentham Biography

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher
Occup.Philosopher
FromEngland
BornFebruary 15, 1748
London, England
DiedJune 6, 1832
London, England
Aged84 years
Jeremy Bentham is best recognized for his advocacy of utilitarianism and animal civil liberties, as well as the suggestion of the panopticon. Bentham was additionally a very early supporter of pet rights.

He desired individuals to benefit from him even after his fatality. As a result, he enabled himself mummified, and also after his expressed need in his will certainly he set up the 30th of May, 1832, needs to his mommy is brought into the college's conference when there was a board conference, so it overcame to them. Now he sits in a passage in the College London, yet it is no more the initial mummy, we sees. The skeletal system is still there, but the cells are changed with wax. Philosopher's head, which the trainees utilized to use as football, is placed on the floor between his legs, however mummy has actually been fitted with a wax head. With his task, he wished to encourage an extra practical attitude towards death as well as the body adhering to resolution, as a weight to the superstitious notion that he believed faith and traditions bordering death with.

Our collection contains 17 quotes who is written / told by Jeremy, under the main topic Legal.

Related authors: John Stuart Mill (Philosopher), Philo (Philosopher), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (Jurist), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

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17 Famous quotes by Jeremy Bentham

Small: The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but rather, Can they suffer?
"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""
Small: The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law
"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law"
Small: The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation"
Small: Every law is an infraction of liberty
"Every law is an infraction of liberty"
Small: Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet
"Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet"
Small: Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government
"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government"
Small: No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belie
"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion"
Small: Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished
"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished"
Small: It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the
"It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual"
Small: It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong
"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong"
Small: He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks it is no matter whether it be
"He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn"
Small: The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature.
"The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell"
Small: All punishment is mischief all punishment in itself is evil
"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil"
Small: Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart
"Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart"
Small: The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right
"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong"
Small: As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to
"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends"
Small: The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection
"The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection"