Ciekawostka: The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London

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JOSEPH CRABTREE JEREMY BENTHAM AND LONDON UNIVERSITY

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JOSEPH CRABTREE JEREMY BENTHAM AND LONDON UNIVERSITY

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The auto-icon of Jeremy Bentham at University College, London.. Authors: MARMOY CF.. Journal: Medical history. Year: 1958

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University College London, which operates as UCL, is a public research university in London, England. It is a member institution of the federal University of London, and is the second-largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrolment and the largest by postgraduate enrolment. Established in 1826 as London University (although without university status or degree-awarding powers) by founders who were inspired by the radical ideas of Jeremy Bentham, UCL was the first university institution to be established in London, and the first in England to be entirely secular and to admit students regardless of their religion. It was also, in 1878, the second college in the United Kingdom to ad…

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Jeremy Bentham (; 4 February 1747/8 O.S. [15 February 1748 N.S.] – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. Bentham defined as the "fundamental axiom" of his philosophy the principle that "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong". He 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 freedoms, the separation of church and state, freedom of expression, equal rights for women, the right to divorce, and (in an unpublished essay) the decriminal…

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