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JEREMY BENTHAM“UNEVENTFUL LIFE”
1748—1832
Marc Mancini
Houndsditch, London on February 15, 1748
Child Prodigy“The Philosopher”
WestminsterQueen’s College, Oxford
Lincoln's Inn
Career in law Organized Religion Legal Reform
Natural Rights Perversion of language “What is every mans…”
Utilitarianism“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think...”
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Jeremy Bentham. (2010, October 29). Retrieved November 1, 2010, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham
Sweet, W. (2008, December 23). Jeremy Bentham. Retrieved October 28, 2010, from Internet Encyclopedia: http://www.iep.utm.edu/bentham/#H3
The 'uneventful life' that embraced philosophy and science as well as penal reform and fridges. (2005, September 9). Retrieved October 29, 2010, from Utilitarianism: http://www.utilitarianism.com/jeremy-bentham/life.html