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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Jeremy Bentham"”.
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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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Utilitarianism and Buddist ethics: a comparative approach to the ethics of animal research
… moral 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 …
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Jeremy Bentham's Theory of Representative Democracy
… as his 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 …
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Islamic Legal Positivism : Reforming Islamic Jurisprudence Using the Equity
… noted 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)
… Utilitarian-Associationist 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 …
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Towards an Understanding of the Distinction Between Limitations and Exceptions in International Copyright Law
… synonymous 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 …
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'The Doors of Perception': Science, Religion, and Literature in Britain's Long-Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
… William 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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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 …
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How Epistolary Novelists’ Literalizations of Moral Sense Philosophy Dramatize the Long-Eighteenth Century’s Gender Battles
… Joseph 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, …
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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 …