Jeremy Bentham argued that the capacity to suffer, not just the capacity to reason, should be the basis for moral consideration—a stance that influenced later arguments for animal rights. His ...

Underlying the Beauchamps and Childress principles are basic philosophical views of morality, the two most prominent being utilitarianism, associated with the work of John Stewart Mill and Jeremy ...

Originally, though, the panopticon was what the British political philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed as a new model of prison architecture at the end of the 18th century. The design was ingenious. It ...

One of the most influential philosophical works of the 20th century, Discipline and Punish is unsettlingly prescient in our ...

Recent judicial rulings in India have reignited debates about the fairness and consistency of capital punishment.

From the natural law ideas of Thomas Aquinas and William Blackstone to the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill to the legal positivism of H L A Hart and Joseph Raz, many ...

In an excerpt from her new book You Didn’t Hear This From Me, author Kelsey McKinney unpacks some of the biggest internet ...

In the eighteenth century, the philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham designed a prison ... or their best interest can be profitable. Utilitarianism has died a rough death in the content ...