Jeremy Bentham, its founder, mentioned animals in a resonant footnote to his “An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation” (1789): If animals suffer, the philosopher Peter ...

Jeremy Bentham has been sitting in a corridor at University College London since 1850. The moral philosopher, whose advocacy of animal welfare, prison reform, universal suffrage, and gay rights ...

This approach has directed lots of litigation, but it judges the worthiness of animals by their likeness to humans. The second, which is a lot better but still not quite right, is the utilitarian ...

Pointing to the words of the nineteenth-century utilitarian, Jeremy Bentham, animal welfare advocates claim that the morally relevant question about animals is not "Can they reason? nor Can they talk?

In particular, they argue that many of the considerations we owe to other people are also due to at least some non-human animals. Jeremy Bentham, the founding figure of utilitarianism, threw down a ...

You will discover, encased in a mahogany and glass structure, nothing less than the mortal remains of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832 ... the law on the treatment of animals, property, taxation ...

The stuffed skeleton belongs to the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who died in 1832 ... freedom of speech, animal rights, and the decriminalization of homosexuality. His then-unconventional ideas ...

“The animal movement was still widely seen as ... To me, the central issue is as the philosopher Jeremy Bentham expressed it in the 18th century: “The question is not, can they reason, nor ...

The 18th century utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham believed that animal suffering was just as serious as human suffering, and likened the idea of human superiority to racism. The first ...