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PRONUNCIATION OF BENTHAMISM

Benthamism  [ˈbɛnθəˌmɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BENTHAMISM

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Benthamism is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BENTHAMISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Benthamism

Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham was a British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer. He is regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. Bentham became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism. He advocated individual and economic freedom, the separation of church and state, freedom of expression, equal rights for women, the right to divorce, and the decriminalising of homosexual acts. He called for the abolition of slavery, the abolition of the death penalty, and the abolition of physical punishment, including that of children. He has also become known in recent years as an early advocate of animal rights. Though strongly in favour of the extension of individual legal rights, he opposed the idea of natural law and natural rights, calling them "nonsense upon stilts". Bentham's students included his secretary and collaborator James Mill, the latter's son, John Stuart Mill, the legal philosopher John Austin, as well as Robert Owen, one of the founders of utopian socialism.

Definition of Benthamism in the English dictionary

The definition of Benthamism in the dictionary is the philosophy of utilitarianism as first expounded by Jeremy Bentham in terms of an action being good that has a greater tendency to augment the happiness of the community than to diminish it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BENTHAMISM


academism
əˈkædəˌmɪzəm
alarmism
əˈlɑːmɪzəm
animism
ˈænɪˌmɪzəm
atomism
ˈætəˌmɪzəm
bromism
ˈbrəʊˌmɪzəm
dynamism
ˈdaɪnəˌmɪzəm
dysphemism
ˈdɪsfɪˌmɪzəm
economism
ɪˈkɒnəˌmɪzəm
endemism
ˈɛndəmɪzəm
euphemism
ˈjuːfɪˌmɪzəm
extremism
ɪkˈstriːmɪzəm
minimism
ˈmɪnɪˌmɪzəm
opiumism
ˈəʊpɪəˌmɪzəm
optimism
ˈɒptɪˌmɪzəm
overoptimism
ˌəʊvərˈɒptɪˌmɪzəm
pancosmism
pænˈkɒzˌmɪzəm
pessimism
ˈpɛsɪˌmɪzəm
racemism
ˈræsɪˌmɪzəm
seismism
ˈsaɪzˌmɪzəm
totemism
ˈtəʊtəˌmɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BENTHAMISM

Benoni
Benson
bent
bent grass
benthal
Bentham
Benthamite
benthic
benthoal
benthon
benthonic
benthopelagic
benthos
benthoscope
Bentinck
Bentley
bento
bento box
Benton

WORDS THAT END LIKE BENTHAMISM

bathmism
bedlamism
chemism
cosmism
Humism
Islamism
legitimism
logical atomism
momism
Moslemism
nomism
nonconformism
Pan-Islamism
panspermism
photochromism
reformism
short-termism
thermochromism
Thomism
transformism

Synonyms and antonyms of Benthamism in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Trends of use of Benthamism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BENTHAMISM»

The term «Benthamism» is used very little and occupies the 185.839 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BENTHAMISM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Benthamism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BENTHAMISM»

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The French Revolution and the creation of Benthamism
This is the first study of how Genevan Etienne Dumont, and his traumatic experience of the French Revolution, shaped the reception and presentation of "Benthamism" and masked the true face of Jeremy Bentham, one of the architects of modern ...
Cyprian Blamires, 2008
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Pleasures of Benthamism: Victorian Literature, Utility, ...
Setting the writings of Bentham, Smith, Malthus, Mill, Dickens, Carlyle, Trollope, Eliot, Gaskell, and Tagore in historical context, Blake widens awareness of commonalities across the age.
Kathleen Blake, 2009
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Pleasures of Benthamism: Victorian Literature, Utility, ...
This book offers a fresh look at the often-censured but imperfectly understood traditions of Utilitarianism and political economy in their bearing for Victorian literature and culture.
Kathleen Blake, 2009
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John Stuart Mill
The four years of confident political activism which had resulted from his final conversion to Benthamism in 1822 were now over. There was no question of his making minor modifications to his views; the changes were wholesale and drastic .
R J Halliday, 2004
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Essays in the History of Canadian Law: A tribute to Peter N. ...
8. Strategic. Benthamism: Rehabilitating. United. Canada's. Bar. Through. Criminal. Law. Codification,. 1847–54. g. blaine baker* On Tuesday 21 May 1850 , William Badgley introduced to the Legislative Assembly of United Canada at ...
David H. Flaherty, 2008
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Health of Prisoners: Historical Essays
Martin J. Wiener What is the place of Benthamism in the history of British prisons? This is a more difficult question than it would have been a generation ago; in recent years the association once freely made of Bentham and his followers with  ...
Richard Creese, Richard Creese William F. Bynum J. Bearn, 2006
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Fraser's Magazine
Benthamism, Political Economy, Laisse,2- Jaire, are the objects of his special detestation and unsparing ridicule and denunciation. Parliamentary debates, journalism, democratic government, and democratic institutions in general are a vain ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, Thomas Carlyle, 1865
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Jeremy Bentham: Critical Assessments
84. Bentham. and. Benthamism. in. Politics. and. Ethics*. H. Sidgwick. 'Source: Fortnightly Review, N.S., vol. 21, 1877, pp. 627-52. In the critical narrative, equally brilliant and erudite, which Mr. Leslie Stephen has given us of the course of ...
Bhikhu C. Parekh, 1993
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The Process of Government: A Study of Social Pressures
"Utilitarian individualism .... was nothing but Benthamism modified by the experience, the prudence, or the timidity of practical politicians."4 On the theoretical side, to which Dicey gives a long discussion, he admits that there are a number of ...
Arthur Fisher Bentley, 1995
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Poststructuralism, Citizenship and Social Policy
A related but different point is made by Dean (l992), who contrasts the 'hyper- administrative' zeal of Benthamism with the 'anti -administrative, abolitionist' ideas characteristic of Malthusian thinking. He suggests that in the end it was the  ...
Alan R. Petersen (Ph. D.), 1999

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BENTHAMISM»

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In a secular India, minorities should get their dues
Chief Justice Dattu's Benthamism short-changes too much of the constitutional understanding which animates our nation's spirit. I do not go to ... «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
2
How mortal sins became 'lifestyle choices'
It is Benthamism: the notion that the only good is the maximisation of pleasure. As Nietzsche rightly said of it, “Pig philosophy.” Tags: gay ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 12»
3
An Overview of Natural Law
During the 19th century natural law theory lost influence as utilitarianism and Benthamism, positivism, materialism, and the historical school of ... «The Moral Liberal, Jan 12»
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Backwash from Berlin
I personally compare the conflict between Hegelianism (or Benthamism from another perspective) and Kantianism with the conflict between the ... «The Economist, Nov 11»
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Terry Eagleton
... but on adding a spot of imagination to it. John Stuart Mill did not reject Benthamism; he simply mixed it with a creative dash of Coleridge. «London Review of Books, Sep 09»
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The Keynesian Revolution and the Neo-liberal Counter-revolution
... from the prevailing morality of the day and having 'protected us all from that final reductio ad absurdum of Benthamism known as Marxism'[2]. «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 09»
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The unmaking of the neo-conservative mind
Where John Stuart Mill had cited Coleridge's On the Constitution of Church and State as a corrective to Benthamism, Lionel Trilling ... «Asia Times Online, Feb 05»

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