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Loretta reports: Like anybody else who studied English history, I knew who Jeremy Bentham was. But I did not know he was still hangin...
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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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English philosopher Jeremy Bentham's corpse remains on display at a university.
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Utilitarianism
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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
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The great thinker left thousands of comments in the margins of his personal library. Now these are being digitised and catalogued.
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by the studio of Thomas Frye oil on canvas 1760 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Do you ever let yourself wander Wikipedia? You start out looking for information about some very specific thing. Then you see an interesting link, so you click it. Then that page has an interesting link so you click that. Sure, you need to be wary about information on Wikipedia because it may have questionable sources,... Read more »
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Jeremy Bentham's preserved auto-icon at UCL offers a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a pioneering thinker, challenging notions of memorialization.
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Traveling can be a real headache, but the TSA's cheeky Instagram account is here to help.
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180 years ago a man died. A very significant man in life, and who was to become a curious icon in death.
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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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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.
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Jeremy Bentham's Auto-Icon
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