Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), British philosopher. His philosophical writings promote the Utilitarian doctrine, which defines good conduct as that which produces “the greatest happiness of the greatest number”. Bentham was a founder of University College, London, where his skeleton serves as the framework of a commemorative waxwork figure.
“The father of English innovation, both in doctrines and in institutions, is Bentham: he is…the great critical thinker of his age and country. John Stuart Mill, Dissertations and Discussions (1859)
The arch-philistine Jeremy Bentham was the insipid, pedantic, leather-tongued oracle of the bourgeois intelligence of the 19th century. Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1867-83)”
