The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham: Volume 8
Subtitle: January 1809 to December 1816 (Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham)
Contributors: Stephen Conway (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Clarendon Press
Published: June 30, 1988
Language: eng; fre
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9780198226154
Subjects: Biography: general; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Penology & punishment; Philosophy Of The 18th Century; Philosophy; Politics/International Relations; United Kingdom, Great Britain; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy / Modern
Description: Jeremy Bentham was a British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer. He is regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. Bentham became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism. He advocated individual and economic freedom, the separation of church and state, freedom of expression, equal rights for women, the right to divorce, and the decriminalising of homosexual acts. He called for the abolition of slavery, the abolition of the death penalty, and the abolition of physical punishment, including that of children. He has also become known in recent years as an early advocate of animal rights. Though strongly in favour of the extension of individual legal rights, he opposed the idea of natural law and natural rights, calling them "nonsense upon stilts."