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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