Jeremy Bentham
- Jurist
- Jeremy Bentham
- School
- Utilitarianism / Analytical Positivism
- Father of
- Modern Utilitarianism
- Theory
- Utilitarianism (Greatest happiness of the greatest number); Felicific Calculus; Expositorial vs Censorial Jurisprudence.
- Quote
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
- Books
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789), A Fragment on Government (1776), Of Laws in General, Theory of Legislation
- Propounded
Greatest Happiness Principle; Felicific Calculus; codification; sovereign-command theory (early positivism); critique of natural rights ('nonsense upon stilts')
- Born
- 1748
- Died
- 1832
- Portrait
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