Jeremy Bentham

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English philosopher and jurist; founder of utilitarianism (1748-1831)

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Jeremy Bentham (1789) Bentham explicitly described what types and qualities of pain and pleasure exist, and how human motives are singularly explained using psychological hedonism. Source: Internet

Philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham once said “Publicity is the very soul of justice. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

Historically, utilitarian thinking about law is associated with the philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Source: Internet

However, as P. J. Kelly argued in Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice: Jeremy Bentham and the Civil Law, Bentham had a theory of justice that prevented such consequences. Source: Internet

In modern philosophy, Jeremy Bentham asserted, like Epicurus, that human behavior is governed by a need to increase pleasure and decrease pain. Source: Internet

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