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• Legal positivism

  

  Legal positivism is a school of thought in philosophy of law and jurisprudence. The principal claims of modern legal positivism are that: The relation of ethics to natural law is difficult. Legal positivism states that there is no inherent or...

• Jeremy Bentham

  

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  Date of birth:

  Feb 15, 1748

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  • Philosopher,
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  Date of death:

  Jun 6, 1832

  Jeremy Bentham (pronounced /ˈbɛnθəm/ or /ˈbɛntəm/) (15 February 1748 – 6 June 1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was the brother of Samuel Bentham. He was a political radical, and a leading theorist in Anglo...

• Utilitarianism

  

  Utilitarianism is the idea that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its contribution to overall utility: that is, its contribution to happiness or pleasure as summed among all people. It is thus a form of consequentialism, meaning...

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