Word: benthamism
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...Social Sciences, it suggested a course it called "Western Thought and Institutions," which would cover social thought from the Greeks, though "Aquinas, Machiavelli, Luther, Bodin, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Bentham, and Mill," to the present day. The course would also include enough history to enable students to understand what they read in its proper historical context...
Philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) once designed a kind of Orwellian prison called the panopticon, a jail building meant to provide warders with a view into the cells. It was never executed, but audiences have enjoyed panopticonic vision for years. Countless films and TV plays have made the state pen almost as familiar a setting as Tombstone-the hostages with shivs at their throats, the leader in the besieged cell block on the phone to the warden, the Spartacus-in-denims who invariably fails to make it out of stir. Giving the old plot a new twist, Novelist William Wiegand...
...less self-evident than most of the other provisions of the Bill of Rights. He cites two main reasons given by Griswold in the amendment's support: 1) "It is cruel to require a man to provide evidence of his guilt"-this Hook calls, in Jeremy Bentham's words, "the old woman's reason," pointing out that punishment itself is cruel; 2) "it constitutes a protection for the innocent" -that, according to Hook, is "far from conclusive until we know to what extent ... the guilty profit by it." The fact that in Anglo-American...
Meanwhile, the desert, offering many things to many men, is still attracting increasing numbers of new settlers. Some, like Tucson Businessman Larry Sierck, who migrated from Davenport, Iowa five years ago and is still in his 30s, come for the opportunities of the fresh new land. Others, like William Bentham and his wife, who left Los Angeles when Bentham got ulcers in his city job, come for the healthy climate and the pleasant living. Today the ulcers are gone and the Mojave Desert location has turned into valuable property. "But, hell," he says, "if we sold, where would...
...cotton gin on anti-conservative ideas of economic determination. The ante-bellum South prattled Calhoun's words, wallowed in Walter Scott, spoke the noble language of local rights and traditions. But it acted, in the crisis, out of the motives of the pocketbook, according to the way Bentham and Marx said men must...