"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law." - Jeremy Bentham This quote is, to an extent, appropriate to both ...

Born in 1748, Jeremy Bentham was a 19th-century English philosopher, economist, and social reformer. Bentham had interesting ideas about mortality and mourning, which shaped how he wanted his remains ...

Not quite a household word (beyond academia, anyway), “panopticon” nonetheless turns up in news stories with surprising frequency—here and here, for example, and here and here. The Greek roots in its ...

Since its inception in 1940, the Journal of the History of Ideas (JHI) has served as a medium for the publication of research in intellectual history that is of common interest to scholars and ...

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This tantalising episode hovers back and forth in time as the legendary Locke takes centre stage. Here is what ensues: John Locke is back on the island in a suit after the crash of flight 316. Two of ...

Ever hear of Jeremy Bentham? He was an Englishman, a political philosopher who lived in the 18th and 19th centuries—and he ...