Jeremy bentham

Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher, economist, and theoretical jurist, the earliest and chief expounder of utilitarianism, which states that an action is right if it tends to promote happiness and wrong if it tends to produce the reverse of happiness. Learn more about Bentham in this article.

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Utilitarianism

English philosopher Jeremy Bentham's corpse remains on display at a university.

180 years ago a man died. A very significant man in life, and who was to become a curious icon in death.

Upon his request in a detailed letter attached to his will, the body of British philosopher Jeremy Bentham was dissected and preserved after his death in 1832 by his disciple Thomas Southwood Smith. The head and skeleton were placed in a wooden cabinet Bentham called the "Auto-icon." The skeleton was dressed in Bentham's clothes and

The great thinker left thousands of comments in the margins of his personal library. Now these are being digitised and catalogued.

Jeremy Bentham's preserved auto-icon at UCL offers a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a pioneering thinker, challenging notions of memorialization.

Transcribe Bentham "There are 60,000 papers written by Bentham in UCL’s library but several thousands of these papers, potentially of immense historical and philosophical importance, have yet to be transcribed and studied. Help transcribing this material for the first time," http://www.transcribe-bentham.da.ulcc.ac.uk/td/Transcribe_Bentham

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The mummified corpse of 18th-century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham will travel to The Met Breuer in NYC for an exhibition that will run from March 21st to July 22nd, 2018.

Jeremy Bentham

Panopticon, Jeremy Bentham, 1791 #pp241 discipline, control, surveillance

"Jeremy Bentham" by Thomas Frye at the National Portrait Gallery, London - From the curator's comments: "This portrait shows Bentham at the age of about thirteen, by which time he had already been admitted to Oxford University. He was to become the youngest man ever to graduate. The boy's precocious talents are alluded to through the university robe he wears, and the verses on the table, which he had written on the accession of King George III."

Jeremy Bentham's Auto-Icon

Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher, economist, and theoretical jurist, the earliest and chief expounder of utilitarianism, which states that an action is right if it tends to promote happiness and wrong if it tends to produce the reverse of happiness. Learn more about Bentham in this article.