Jeremy Bentham

During the five years of their engagement, John Austin decided that Sarah was in need of a rigorous intellectual education in accordance with his religious, political, and philosophical bent of mind. He provided her...

Parental influences inclined both SA and her husband towards radicalism and ultra-Liberal opinions. Later, her husband impressed her with the political opinions he had derived from his army experience, during which he began to...

After they were married, the couple moved to No. 1 Queen Square, Westminster; their neighbours included Mill and Bentham .

John Austin was a pupil of Bentham , and intimate with all the friends of his master. They had met well before his marriage. At first he completely embraced Bentham's philosophies and political...

Fevvers was hatched from an egg and raised in a brothel, and sold herself into slavery to help her foster family. With the touring circus, she migrates from London to the Siberian wilderness (it turns...

Hard Times is also an attack on Bentham ite Utilitarianism.

John Austin , Lucie's father, legal philosopher, was the son of a successful miller and corn merchant. A pupil of Jeremy Bentham , he held a number of positions relating to jurisprudence throughout his...

Friends of LDG 's parents included political radicals and commentators of the day, such as Bentham , theCarlyles , James Mill , Macaulay , and Sydney Smith . Her own childhood friends included her...

While serving his sentence in the Surrey Gaol in Horsemonger Lane (missing his family and ill with lung disease caused by confinement), LH received as visitors Maria Edgeworth , William Hazlitt , Jeremy Bentham ,...

JSM 's father oversaw his extraordinary education, using Jeremy Bentham , author of An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, and his Utilitarian theories as a guide. JSM could read ancient Greek...

He was introduced to Jeremy Bentham through his father. He also associated with John Austin and George Grote .

In 1820 and 1821 he spent time studying in France with Bentham 's brother Samuel .

The creed or philosophy of Utilitarianism held that human actions ought to be directed towards (in the well-known phrase of Jeremy Bentham ) the greatest happiness of the greatest number. Mill argued that utility is...

Her forebears on both sides were Unitarian but, at her mother's urging, the family became Anglican to match their social class. Despite the public conversion, William Nightingale held strongly to his Unitarian background and was...

Florence received a liberal education from her father.She studied Latin, Greek, Italian, French, German, history, composition, and philosophy. Her reading materials included Sarah Trimmer 's New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a New and General...