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| - | '''Jeremy Bentham''' ([[February 15]] , [[1748]] [[O.S.]] ([[February 26]], [[1748]] [[N.S.]]) – [[June 6]], [[1832]]) was an [[England|English]] [[jurist]], [[philosopher]], and legal and [[social reform]]er. He was a political radical and a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law. He is best known as an early advocate of [[utilitarianism]] and [[animal rights]] who influenced the development of [[liberalism]]. | + | '''Jeremy Bentham''' ([[February 15]] , [[1748]] – [[June 6]], [[1832]]) was an [[England|English]] [[jurist]], [[philosopher]], and legal and [[social reform]]er, best-known today for devising the ''[[Panopticon]]''. He was a [[political radical]] and a leading theorist in [[Anglo-American philosophy]] of law. He is best known as an early advocate of [[utilitarianism]] and [[animal rights]] who influenced the development of [[liberalism]]. In ''[[An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation]]'' he wrote of [[sexual ethics]]. |
| - | == Panopticon == | + | == Key concepts== |
| + | *[[Panopticon]] | ||
| - | Among his many proposals for legal and social reform was a design for a prison building he called the [[Panopticon]]. Although it was never built, the idea had an important influence upon later generations of thinkers. Twentieth-century French philosopher [[Michel Foucault]] argued that the Panopticon was paradigmatic of a whole raft of nineteenth-century 'disciplinary' institutions. | + | == Texts == |
| - | {{GFDL}} | + | *[[An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation]] |
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| - | <P>XXXVI. First, then, with regard to offences which affects | + | |
| - | person and reputation together. When any man, by a mode of treatment | + | |
| - | which affects the person, injures the reputation of another, his end | + | |
| - | and purpose must have been either his own immediate pleasure, or that | + | |
| - | sort of reflected pleasure, which in certain circumstances may be | + | |
| - | reaped from the suffering of another. Now the only immediate pleasure | + | |
| - | worth regarding, which any one can reap from the person of another, | + | |
| - | and which at the same time is capable of affecting the reputation of | + | |
| - | the latter, is the pleasure of the sexual appetites. This pleasure, | + | |
| - | then, if reaped at all, must have been reaped either against the | + | |
| - | consent of the party, or with consent. If with consent, the consent | + | |
| - | must have been obtained either freely and fairly both, or freely but | + | |
| - | not fairly, or else not even freely; in which case the fairness is out | + | |
| - | of the question. If the consent be altogether wanting, the offence is | + | |
| - | called <I>rape: </I>if not fairly obtained, <I>seduction </I>simply: | + | |
| - | if not freely, it may be called <I>forcible seduction. </I>In any | + | |
| - | case, either the offence has gone the length of consummation, or has | + | |
| - | stopped short of that period; if it has gone that length, it takes one | + | |
| - | or other of the names just mentioned: if not, it may be included alike | + | |
| - | in all cases under the denomination of a <I>simple lascivious injury. | + | |
| - | </I>Lastly, to take the case where a man injuring you in your | + | |
| - | reputation, by proceedings that regard your person, does it for the | + | |
| - | sake of that sort of pleasure which will sometimes result from the | + | |
| - | contemplation of another's pain. Under these circumstances either the | + | |
| - | offence has actually gone the length of a corporal injury, or it has | + | |
| - | rested in menacement: in the first case it may be styled a <I>corporal | + | |
| - | insult; </I>in the other, it may come under the name of <I>insulting | + | |
| - | menacement. </I>And thus we have six genera, or kind of offences, | + | |
| - | against person and reputation together; which, when ranged in the | + | |
| - | order most commodious for consideration, will stand thus: | + | |
| - | <BR>1. Corporal insults. | + | |
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| - | <BR>2. Insulting menacement. | + | |
| - | <BR>3. Seduction. | + | |
| - | <BR>4. Rape. | + | |
| - | <BR>5. Forcible seduction. | + | |
| - | <BR>6. Simple lascivious injuries. | + | |
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Jeremy Bentham (February 15 , 1748 – June 6, 1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer, best-known today for devising the Panopticon. He was a political radical and a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law. He is best known as an early advocate of utilitarianism and animal rights who influenced the development of liberalism. In An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation he wrote of sexual ethics.
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