Jeremy Bentham

Much of EJS 's writing was influenced by John Stuart Mill , Jeremy Bentham , and Auguste Comte . She wrote for a range of publications including the Contemporary Review, the North British Review...

The work was, according to her biographer, a statement of the scientific rationalist's ethical position. Several of her assertions challenge traditional Christian ideology. For example she notes that there is no prospect of the...

Critic Lynda M. Thompson argues that TCP and Laetitia Pilkington (her close predecessor in publication, regularly linked with her in contemporary gossip) were doing something quite new in revealing their transgressive sex lives and blaming...

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...

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...

Once established in London by the mid 1820s, AW moved among the socialist intelligentsia, choosing as her associates Jeremy Bentham , whom she claimed to [adore] as a philosopher and [love] as a friend,

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

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...

Hard Times is also an attack on Bentham ite Utilitarianism.

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