Bentham

[ ben-thuhm, -tuhm ]

/ ˈbɛn θəm, -təm /

noun

Jeremy, 1748–1832, English jurist and philosopher.

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Reading Bentham was a good warning but Solzhenitsyn was a better friend.
Reading Prison Novels In Prison|Daniel Genis|May 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On the other hand the problem has in some respects become easier since the time of Bentham.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6|Various
Nobody could write more pointedly, or with happier illustrations, than Bentham in his earlier years.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I.|Leslie Stephen
They had more and more of that cold science of self-interests which he had learnt from Bentham.
The Victorian Age in Literature|G. K. Chesterton

But those attributes could only be determined by experience, or, as Bentham would have put it, by an appeal to 'utility.'
The English Utilitarians, Volume I.|Leslie Stephen
The transition is made: Bentham and his school are an evidence of the fact.
On the Ethics of Naturalism|William Ritchie Sorley

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Bentham

/ (ˈbɛnθəm) /

noun

Jeremy . 1748–1832, British philosopher and jurist: a founder of utilitarianism. His works include A Fragment on Government (1776) and Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)

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