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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Bentham"”.
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The Complete Bentham: Rationality's Afterlife in Victorian Literature
<p>“The Complete Bentham: Rationality’s Afterlife in Victorian Literature,” focuses on one of the nineteenth century’s most contentious attempts to imagine the social good in quantitative terms: Jeremy Bentham’s proposal to measure and manage “the greatest happiness for the greatest number.” The …
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La non-distopia di Jeremy Bentham. Il Panopticon tra utilitarismo e riformismo
Between 1786 and 1791 Jeremy Bentham conceived and complete the drafting of the Panopticon. It is a proposal of prison's reform to which he will work for twenty years, both introducing changes and clarifications to the original text, and trying to give it concrete implementation. Despite the …
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Study of the physical mechanical properties of capirona wood (Calycophyllum spruceanum (bentham)Hooker f.ex.schumann) as potential for solid wood flooring production
[The aim of this study was to determine the physical-mechanical properties of a 20-year-old plantation of the species Calycophyllum spruceanum, known as "capirona" in Peru, due to its potential in wood flooring production. Samples were taken from six trees in a plantation in Curimaná-Ucayali, Peru, …
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Jeremy Bentham's Theory of Representative Democracy
… preferred form of government explicitly, Jeremy Bentham is conspicuously absent from current scholarly work in these fields. This thesis contends that Bentham put forward an original, realist theory of representative democracy that ought to be taken seriously. Chapter I sets out the primary …
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Utilitarianism and Buddist ethics: a comparative approach to the ethics of animal research
… system of utilitarianism as put forth by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, as well as contemporary additions to the system. It also looks at the basics of Buddhist ethics well distinguishing the Mahayana from the Therevada. Three case studies in animal research are used to explore how both …
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Towards an Understanding of the Distinction Between Limitations and Exceptions in International Copyright Law
… terms. However, almost 250 years ago, Jeremy Bentham explored the philosophical and normative differences between limitations and exceptions. Copyright legal theorists have so far overlooked the contributions of Bentham and his progeny. Bentham’s theory suggests there is a right time for a …
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The global politics of illicit-drug control
The 1980s saw the wider availability and growing consumption of illicit drugs. The increase in drug trafficking and drug use has occurred despite increasing international action to prevent it. In describing the situation as a "drug problem", policy-makers have responded to the concern as if it were …
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Poverty, savings banks and the development of self-help, c. 1775-1834
… of writers such as Thomas Robert Malthus, Jeremy Bentham, Patrick Colquhoun, David Davies, Frederick Morton Eden, Edmund Burke, etc., it is shown that this newer conception of natural law, encompassing a less interventionist and more macroeconomic approach (involving the deployment of statistics …
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Coordination and concord in generalized categorial grammar
… as given coherence by Moortgat (1988) and van Bentham (1986, 1988, 1989), but based upon the type calculus invented by Lambek (1958), in a formulation of the implicational intuitionistic logic using sequents developed by Gentzen (1935). Various extensions to the theory are explored, along with …
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Systems modelling and ethical decision algorithms for autonomous vehicle collisions
… the utilitarian and deontological approaches of Bentham and Kant, with the two competing societal actions being altruistic and selfish as defined by Hamilton. It is shown in simulation, that the utilitarian approach is likely to be the most favourable candidate to succeed as a serious contender …
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The Juristic Nature of Taxation
… of monetary obligation, as exemplified by Raz, Bentham and Kelsen. It is thus that taxation may be “individuated” from other areas of law. And the monetary nature of a tax obligation exposes a profound relationship between monetary obligations and responsibility (so that a purely monetary …
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Islamic Legal Positivism : Reforming Islamic Jurisprudence Using the Equity
… Enlightenment figures like Francis Bacon, Jeremy Bentham, and John Austin attempted to minimize the importance of ancient sources and instead promote public interest for lawmaking purposes. By emulating these successful strategies of Enlightenment figures, reformist Muslim jurists will …
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THE UTILITARIAN - ASSOCIATIONIST TRADITION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISHPSYCHOLOGY, 1855-1903 (VOLUMES I AND II) (ALEXANDER BAIN, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, JAMES WARD, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)
… program formulated by Jeremy Bentham, James Mill and John Stuart Mill shaped the framework of British psychology throughout the nineteenth century. These thinkers believed that an associationist and hedonistic science of mind provided a sound foundation for a non-intuitionistic …
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Τo triage υπό το πρίσμα του Ωφελισμισμού σε καταστάσεις έκτακτης ανάγκης
… του ωφελιμισμού, από τον κλασικό ηδονισμό του Bentham έως τη διάκριση ποιοτικών απολαύσεων του Mill και τις σύγχρονες μορφές συνεπειοκρατίας. Η αρχή της ωφέλειας, ως απαίτηση μεγιστοποίησης της συνολικής ευημερίας, παρέχει σαφές συγκριτικό κριτήριο σε περιβάλλοντα περιορισμένων πόρων. Στο …
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'The Doors of Perception': Science, Religion, and Literature in Britain's Long-Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
… Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, Charles Lyell, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charles Darwin, Matthew Arnold, David Friedrich Strauss, Ludwig Feuerbach, George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde. One effect of the limits of language was on …
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Michel Foucault’s panopticism and dystopian discourses: the asymmetry of the gaze in philosophy and film /
… and driving force of the effectiveness of Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon. It is argued that Enlightenment ideas as well as related processes of secularization created favorable conditions for panopticism to establish itself as the predominant power dispositif. The possibility to rethink the problem …
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How Epistolary Novelists’ Literalizations of Moral Sense Philosophy Dramatize the Long-Eighteenth Century’s Gender Battles
… Butler, David Hume, Adam Smith, and Jeremy Bentham—sparked the imaginations of some of the era’s top epistolary novelists who dramatized their philosophical theories in fictional moral experiments. This project investigates how and why the novelists Aphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, Sarah …
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