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Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832)

Jeremy Bentham held that all human and political action could be analysed in terms of pleasure and pain, and so made comprehensible. One such analysis is how people ...

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Political philosophy

Political philosophy can be defined as philosophical reflection on how best to arrange our collective life - our political institutions and our social practices, such as our economic ...

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Blackstone, William (1723–80)

Blackstone produced the first systematic exposition of English law as a body of principles. His enterprise was founded upon the assumption that the detailed rules of English law ...

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Bryce, James (1838–1922)

James Bryce, British statesman and writer, combined a distinguished public life with scholarship in history, politics and law. As a jurist his interest lay in historical jurisprudence, but ...

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Rashdall, Hastings (1858–1924)

Hastings Rashdall was a utilitarian in ethics, an idealist in metaphysics and a Christian monotheist in religion. His history of medieval universities became a classic. His revisions of ...

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Asceticism

The term ‘asceticism’ is derived from the Greek word, askēsis, which referred originally to the sort of exercise, practice or training in which athletes engage. Asceticism may ...

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Jhering, Rudolf von (1818–92)

Jhering saw law as a mechanism for achieving current purposes, supplying the compulsion needed where other levers were insufficient to secure the conditions of social life. In this, ...

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Mill, James (1773–1836)

James Mill, who is today remembered mainly as Bentham’s chief disciple and John Stuart Mill’s father, was a British philosopher, political theorist, historian, psychologist, economist, educationist and journalist. ...

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Baumgardt, David (1890–1963)

Baumgardt’s early works dealt with the problem of modalities in the philosophies of Kant, Husserl and Meinong and with German philosophical romanticism, especially in the mystic Franz von ...

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Murray, Andrew Howson (1905–97)

One of the leading South African philosophers of the twentieth century, Murray was best known as a public intellectual and for his work in political thought. He was ...

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Williams, Glanville Llewellyn (1911–97)

Once said by the criminologist Sir Leon Radzinowicz to have been ‘Jeremy Bentham’s only legitimate descendant’, Glanville Williams was one of the best known and most prolific and ...

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Human nature, science of, in the 18th century

Eighteenth-century speculation on human nature is distinguishable by its approach and underlying assumptions. Taking their cue from Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton, many philosophers of the Enlightenment endeavoured ...

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Austin, John (1790–1859)

Although written in the early nineteenth century, Austin’s is probably the most coherent and sustained account of the theory of legal positivism. The complex relationships between legal positivism ...

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Priestley, Joseph (1733–1804)

A major figure of the British Enlightenment, Joseph Priestley is best known as a scientist and for his discovery of oxygen, though he was by profession a theologian, ...

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Wollaston, William (1660–1724)

William Wollaston, a popular eighteenth-century English moral philosopher, is often grouped with Samuel Clarke as a staunch defender of the kind of moral rationalism that David Hume later ...