Key Radicals and Reformers: Jeremy Bentham 1748-1832 Flashcards
1
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Who was Jeremy Bentham?
A
He was an influential thinker/philosopher
2
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What did Jeremy Bentham belive?
A
He believed that leaders should seek to achieve ‘the greatest happiness for the greater number’.
He also believed in free market and civil liberties.
And that people were rational and would do the right thing out of self-interest.
3
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What did he also want to achieve?
A
Constitutional reform and democracy and he inspired a generation of Whigs like Charles James Fox.
4
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What did he argue against?
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The traditional Tory views of how to run a country
