Throughout this video, I learned many things about Jeremy Bentham, he was a very intelligent boy that was way ahead of his age. Bentham was at first interested in law as a profession, but shortly he decided instead of practicing law he wanted to write it. The article also states that Bentham wrote an anonymous rebuttal on the Declaration of Independence, this is important because it takes a lot if intelligence and knowledge on law to write a rebuttal on a document of that caliber. The video also mentions that he had a new design for prisons that allows one prison guard to be able to watch all the inmates at once, this is amazing for this time period. Bentham was the inventor of Utilitarianism which means an action is right only if promotes happiness. Bentham believed his principle of utilitarianism should be the guide by which all people followed, which included lawmakers and law enforcers. This means that law makers, according to utilitarianism, have to make laws that are suitable and fair to all the different kinds of people, weather they are poor or rich. This also means that law enforcers need to give the correct and necessary prison or jail terms for the specific crime that was committed. Utilitarianism, in the form of law, seems like an extremely fair way to make laws and determine punishments. -LW001
while watching this video I learned many things about the history of Jeremy, he was a very smart boy that was very well interest in law inforcement he was always very greatful about the health of others what surpised me when this guy was talking that at the young age of three Jeremy was reading. AT THE AGE OF THREE. he returned home with out the parents knowing and when the parents got home he was there reading a book what the heck at the age of three in todays world you would possibly find a kid at the table shoving there mouth with food and not able to read talk about a smart kid. while listening to this video I caught at the age of 6 he was being pushed up a grade because of his smartness. ive never heard of someone being pushed up a year just being held back a year. in 1794 he was being paid to make a prison or jail, he also watched the prison he also was very upset when the prison was shut down, if you ask me I feel that bentham is a very smart man beretta001
Jeremy Bentham was an anomaly of his time, and even still today. Jeremy was intelligent beyond his years, reading fluently at the age of three, and beginning his classical studies at the age of only four years old. His parents, his father especially, had a lot of pride in their son's intelligence, and his intellect did not go unnoticed, even if it was not to the boys advantage at times. After being bullied in school for a long time for being small, smart, and flatout strange compared to his peers, at the age of 12 the young Bentham enrolled in college. Coming out of there the boy took a great interest in law and law enforcement. Bentham is credited for formulating the idea of utilitarianism. Utilitarianism basically just says something is only deemed right if, from it, happiness is produced. When attributed to law this would mean that, by this belief, all laws should be created fairly no matter a person's socioeconomic status, gender, race, etcetera. Furthermore, punishments should fit the crime that was committed. For example, you should not be sentenced 3 years in prison for stealing a candy bar from a gas station, the punishment way out weighs the offense. Bentham believed though that everybody should live by the idea of utilitarianism, not only those involved in the criminal justice system. -psych001
Wow I didn’t realize that Jeremy Bentham was such a child prodigy. With going to West minister college and Oxford he seemed to good for that time period. I liked how he saw womans’ rights should be respected even thought the time he lived in they didn’t see things that way. I was surprised at just the young age of three he was learning foreign languages and then learning how to play music just a few years later. Some people now a days cant even do any of that. I didn’t realize he helped disect for the British government the declaration of independence to help explain to the British commonwealth the declaration of independence. Even though in my eyes it seems like the British government took his insight but barely used his complexity of insight on law to be used in practical ways. One thing that amazed me was his description of how a prison should be set up. It seems like later in later years his idea was adoption into practical prison design reducing labor therefore saving money on ones budget yearly. In his later years he seem to pursue the early rights as an animal advocate. Back then they need animals to feed the community so I thought that was quite interesting. Navy001
Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher and political radical. He is primarily known today for his moral philosophy, especially his principle of utilitarianism, which evaluates actions based upon their consequences. The relevant consequences, in particular, are the overall happiness created for everyone affected by the action. Influenced by many enlightenment thinkers, especially empiricists such as John Locke and David Hume, Bentham developed an ethical theory grounded in a largely empiricist account of human nature. He famously held a hedonistic account of both motivation and value according to which what is fundamentally valuable and what ultimately motivates us is pleasure and pain. Happiness, according to Bentham, is thus a matter of experiencing pleasure and lack of pain. Even though he never practiced law, Bentham did write a great deal of philosophy of law, spending most of his life critiquing the existing law and strongly advocating legal reform. Throughout his work, he critiques various natural accounts of law which claim, for example, that liberty, rights, and so on exist independent of government. In this way, Bentham arguably developed an early form of what is now often called "legal positivism." Beyond such critiques, he ultimately maintained that putting his moral theory into consistent practice would yield results in legal theory by providing justification for social, political, and legal institutions. Bentham's influence was minor during his life. -PB001
Jeremy Bentham was the founder of modern utilitarianism. He was born on February 15th 1748 in Houndsditch, London. He was a child prodigy. Which I’m not surprised because of how smart his parents were. They were both scientist and always around very smart people. He could read at the age of three. At the age of four Jeremy was learning Greek. By the age of six he could play the Violin very well. Bentham believed his principle of utilitarianism should be the guide by which all people followed, which included lawmakers and law enforcers especially. Which it should because it could help solve a lot of issues. For example, if a women is drowning in a lake and the man who caused her to drown is running away. The officer on scene has to figure out what is the best thing to do, save the women or the man who caused her to drown. Especially with lawmaking. When it comes to law making laws to have to be fair to all kinds of people. No if there rich, poor, black, or white. Jeremy Bentham believed in equality so that everyone can have a fair chance in law enforcement. Batman001
In this video, it first talks about Jeremy Benthams early years and how he came upon his theory of juvenile delinquency. Bentham ended up getting a Master’s degree in Law at Oxford but he said the education at the college didn’t benefit him that much. When Bentham left college he ended up realizing he did not want to practice law but he was going to write about it. Bentham had projects he liked to do, one being a design for a prison building called the panopticon, in this design prisoners could be watched by a single officer without them even knowing through this type of circular design. A part I thought was interesting in the video was how Bentham's philosophy has the concept of Untilariarism so that an action is right only if it can promote happiness but if an action doesn’t promote happiness it is wrong. The man in the video stated that Bentham was interested in anything unless it could be practically applied in society which I believe is a good way of saying that because it shows that Bentham was only attentive to helping people understand his philosophy. It is interesting that Bentham helped stop crime in a time called the Pool of London where it brought out the Thames River police which would be known as the first police force in England. -HL001
Jeremny Bentham was extremely intelligent and way ahead of everyone else his age. He was reading FLUENTLY at the age of 3 and mastering Greek and Latin at a young age well. At school he felt that the teaching he got was not great and the things he learned we useless. He said the higher rank the professor...the less efficient the professor was. He attended Oxford at a younger age as well. His tutor found it that if the activities Bentham did in his life...if it did not contribute to educational reasons, was a waste of time. He found that his studies at Oxford were just as useless as the school he went to prior. He eventually left Oxford with a masters degree in law. He decided, after trying to apply law/ practice it he no longer wanted to participate in it. Instead, Benthem wanted to write about it. He spent his time critiquing the existing law and proposing ways that it could be improved (reform). When he got deeper into his writing career he made sure everything was perfect and precise. Fast Forward a ton, he helped design the Panopticon. It was a circle with a watchtower in the middle. The idea was that if the prisoners did not know if they were being watched or not would help them regulate their own behavior. He fully intended on getting it built and functioning. When getting stubborn reactions by the government he figured there was no real interest in penal reform. Utilitarianism: an action is right only if it promotes happiness and wrong if it does not promote happiness. Benthem thought that his utilitarian principle should be the practical guide by which ALL people made decisions. He believed that no matter a person’s race, beliefs, etc. they should be able to have the same level of pleasure and avoid the same measure of pain as anyone else. -TanLionNala001
After watching this video, I learned that Jeremy Bentham was such a child prodigy. Reading fluently at age three and then able to learn Greek and Latin languages at age four. He went to Westminster school and on to Oxford college at age twelve where he also took his master’s degree with a major in law. I found out that he never ended up practicing law but instead write about it. He became a critic of the existing law and helped to propose improvements. I learned that Bentham helped with pointing out some weak points of the Declaration of Independence. He designed for an improved prison building called the Panopticon, that allowed prisoners to be watched by a single guard without them knowing it. His political philosophy concept is Utilitarianism which based on a principle that an action is right when it promotes happiness and wrong if it does not. I like that his interest is in anything that applied to society. He developed the Hedonic Calculus, that balance the pleasurable and painful effects of proposed actions. He became known internationally because of his writings and thinker and as the earliest member of Animal Rights. I do like that he saw the issue of women’s right ahead of time, that women should enjoy the same equal rights as men. -Cancun001
The founder of modern utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham believed that the doing of good is the meaning behind utilitarianism. Bentham was born in London into a very wealthy family, he was a child prodigy and his father wanted him to excel in everything. As a young person, Bentham was bullied for being so weak and thin, yet the children loved to us him for his knowledge. He was a loner, for the reason he did not care for the ignorance of his peers. Bentham was only a mere twelve years old when he graduated, then moved on to Oxford. If you are not learning something educational then it is simply a waste of time in Bentham’s eyes. During the time of the Declaration of Independence, Bentham wrote a rebuttal and pointed out all of the weaknesses. Soon after he came up with the idea to open a panopticon prison. Basically the prison would be circular with a single watchman in the middle, the prisoners unaware will still behave. Unfortunately he ran out of funds for this idea. Bentham viewed utilitarianism as if an action is right it will promote happiness, and if an action is wrong it will promote unhappiness. This is a practical guide will make a more logical society. In order to pursue pleasure and avoid pain Bnetham came up with hedonic calculus. Hedonic calculus consists of seven parts including; intensity, duration, certainty, remoteness, extent, purity, and fecundity. Bentham was also an animal rights activist and believes in women's rights, which is incredible for this time. At the end of his life he left instructions on what he wanted physician, Thomas Southward to do with his corpse. He passed on June sixth, 1832, his body was dissected and preserved in the presence of his friends. To this day you can visit Bentham’s mummified head and wax model at the University College in London. -KF001
This video was very informative about Jeremy Bentham and it really gave great insight into the type of person he was, even at a young age. After learning that not only at the age of 3 was reading fluently but by the age of 4 was writing in Latin. By the age of 12 Bentham was enrolled in classes at Oxford University, which is absolutely crazy to think about but considering his intellect made a lot of sense. The Panopticon prison concept was by far the most interesting thing in this video. The idea revolved around one big main watch tower in the middle with only one guard watching all of the inmates who surround the tower, but the inmates had no idea of knowing if they were being watched. His theory was that if the inmates had no idea they were being watched by the guard then they would regulate their own behavior in order to avoid punishment. I would have to agree that this is a very good idea because it could cause the inmate to rethink all of their actions once released because the thought of always being watched by other individuals in public who could judge them for their behavior. -Blues001
Throughout this video, I learned many things about Jeremy Bentham, he was a very intelligent boy that was way ahead of his age. Bentham was at first interested in law as a profession, but shortly he decided instead of practicing law he wanted to write it. The article also states that Bentham wrote an anonymous rebuttal on the Declaration of Independence, this is important because it takes a lot if intelligence and knowledge on law to write a rebuttal on a document of that caliber. The video also mentions that he had a new design for prisons that allows one prison guard to be able to watch all the inmates at once, this is amazing for this time period. Bentham was the inventor of Utilitarianism which means an action is right only if promotes happiness. Bentham believed his principle of utilitarianism should be the guide by which all people followed, which included lawmakers and law enforcers. This means that law makers, according to utilitarianism, have to make laws that are suitable and fair to all the different kinds of people, weather they are poor or rich. This also means that law enforcers need to give the correct and necessary prison or jail terms for the specific crime that was committed. Utilitarianism, in the form of law, seems like an extremely fair way to make laws and determine punishments. -LW001
ReplyDeletewhile watching this video I learned many things about the history of Jeremy, he was a very smart boy that was very well interest in law inforcement he was always very greatful about the health of others what surpised me when this guy was talking that at the young age of three Jeremy was reading. AT THE AGE OF THREE. he returned home with out the parents knowing and when the parents got home he was there reading a book what the heck at the age of three in todays world you would possibly find a kid at the table shoving there mouth with food and not able to read talk about a smart kid. while listening to this video I caught at the age of 6 he was being pushed up a grade because of his smartness. ive never heard of someone being pushed up a year just being held back a year. in 1794 he was being paid to make a prison or jail, he also watched the prison he also was very upset when the prison was shut down, if you ask me I feel that bentham is a very smart man beretta001
ReplyDeleteJeremy Bentham was an anomaly of his time, and even still today. Jeremy was intelligent beyond his years, reading fluently at the age of three, and beginning his classical studies at the age of only four years old. His parents, his father especially, had a lot of pride in their son's intelligence, and his intellect did not go unnoticed, even if it was not to the boys advantage at times. After being bullied in school for a long time for being small, smart, and flatout strange compared to his peers, at the age of 12 the young Bentham enrolled in college. Coming out of there the boy took a great interest in law and law enforcement. Bentham is credited for formulating the idea of utilitarianism. Utilitarianism basically just says something is only deemed right if, from it, happiness is produced. When attributed to law this would mean that, by this belief, all laws should be created fairly no matter a person's socioeconomic status, gender, race, etcetera. Furthermore, punishments should fit the crime that was committed. For example, you should not be sentenced 3 years in prison for stealing a candy bar from a gas station, the punishment way out weighs the offense. Bentham believed though that everybody should live by the idea of utilitarianism, not only those involved in the criminal justice system. -psych001
ReplyDeleteWow I didn’t realize that Jeremy Bentham was such a child prodigy. With going to West minister college and Oxford he seemed to good for that time period. I liked how he saw womans’ rights should be respected even thought the time he lived in they didn’t see things that way. I was surprised at just the young age of three he was learning foreign languages and then learning how to play music just a few years later. Some people now a days cant even do any of that. I didn’t realize he helped disect for the British government the declaration of independence to help explain to the British commonwealth the declaration of independence. Even though in my eyes it seems like the British government took his insight but barely used his complexity of insight on law to be used in practical ways. One thing that amazed me was his description of how a prison should be set up. It seems like later in later years his idea was adoption into practical prison design reducing labor therefore saving money on ones budget yearly. In his later years he seem to pursue the early rights as an animal advocate. Back then they need animals to feed the community so I thought that was quite interesting. Navy001
ReplyDeleteJeremy Bentham was an English philosopher and political radical. He is primarily known today for his moral philosophy, especially his principle of utilitarianism, which evaluates actions based upon their consequences. The relevant consequences, in particular, are the overall happiness created for everyone affected by the action. Influenced by many enlightenment thinkers, especially empiricists such as John Locke and David Hume, Bentham developed an ethical theory grounded in a largely empiricist account of human nature. He famously held a hedonistic account of both motivation and value according to which what is fundamentally valuable and what ultimately motivates us is pleasure and pain. Happiness, according to Bentham, is thus a matter of experiencing pleasure and lack of pain. Even though he never practiced law, Bentham did write a great deal of philosophy of law, spending most of his life critiquing the existing law and strongly advocating legal reform. Throughout his work, he critiques various natural accounts of law which claim, for example, that liberty, rights, and so on exist independent of government. In this way, Bentham arguably developed an early form of what is now often called "legal positivism." Beyond such critiques, he ultimately maintained that putting his moral theory into consistent practice would yield results in legal theory by providing justification for social, political, and legal institutions. Bentham's influence was minor during his life. -PB001
ReplyDeleteJeremy Bentham was the founder of modern utilitarianism. He was born on February 15th 1748 in Houndsditch, London. He was a child prodigy. Which I’m not surprised because of how smart his parents were. They were both scientist and always around very smart people. He could read at the age of three. At the age of four Jeremy was learning Greek. By the age of six he could play the Violin very well. Bentham believed his principle of utilitarianism should be the guide by which all people followed, which included lawmakers and law enforcers especially. Which it should because it could help solve a lot of issues. For example, if a women is drowning in a lake and the man who caused her to drown is running away. The officer on scene has to figure out what is the best thing to do, save the women or the man who caused her to drown. Especially with lawmaking. When it comes to law making laws to have to be fair to all kinds of people. No if there rich, poor, black, or white. Jeremy Bentham believed in equality so that everyone can have a fair chance in law enforcement. Batman001
ReplyDeleteIn this video, it first talks about Jeremy Benthams early years and how he came upon his theory of juvenile delinquency. Bentham ended up getting a Master’s degree in Law at Oxford but he said the education at the college didn’t benefit him that much. When Bentham left college he ended up realizing he did not want to practice law but he was going to write about it. Bentham had projects he liked to do, one being a design for a prison building called the panopticon, in this design prisoners could be watched by a single officer without them even knowing through this type of circular design. A part I thought was interesting in the video was how Bentham's philosophy has the concept of Untilariarism so that an action is right only if it can promote happiness but if an action doesn’t promote happiness it is wrong. The man in the video stated that Bentham was interested in anything unless it could be practically applied in society which I believe is a good way of saying that because it shows that Bentham was only attentive to helping people understand his philosophy. It is interesting that Bentham helped stop crime in a time called the Pool of London where it brought out the Thames River police which would be known as the first police force in England. -HL001
ReplyDeleteJeremny Bentham was extremely intelligent and way ahead of everyone else his age. He was reading FLUENTLY at the age of 3 and mastering Greek and Latin at a young age well. At school he felt that the teaching he got was not great and the things he learned we useless. He said the higher rank the professor...the less efficient the professor was. He attended Oxford at a younger age as well. His tutor found it that if the activities Bentham did in his life...if it did not contribute to educational reasons, was a waste of time. He found that his studies at Oxford were just as useless as the school he went to prior. He eventually left Oxford with a masters degree in law. He decided, after trying to apply law/ practice it he no longer wanted to participate in it. Instead, Benthem wanted to write about it. He spent his time critiquing the existing law and proposing ways that it could be improved (reform). When he got deeper into his writing career he made sure everything was perfect and precise. Fast Forward a ton, he helped design the Panopticon. It was a circle with a watchtower in the middle. The idea was that if the prisoners did not know if they were being watched or not would help them regulate their own behavior. He fully intended on getting it built and functioning. When getting stubborn reactions by the government he figured there was no real interest in penal reform. Utilitarianism: an action is right only if it promotes happiness and wrong if it does not promote happiness. Benthem thought that his utilitarian principle should be the practical guide by which ALL people made decisions. He believed that no matter a person’s race, beliefs, etc. they should be able to have the same level of pleasure and avoid the same measure of pain as anyone else. -TanLionNala001
ReplyDeleteAfter watching this video, I learned that Jeremy Bentham was such a child prodigy. Reading fluently at age three and then able to learn Greek and Latin languages at age four. He went to Westminster school and on to Oxford college at age twelve where he also took his master’s degree with a major in law. I found out that he never ended up practicing law but instead write about it. He became a critic of the existing law and helped to propose improvements. I learned that Bentham helped with pointing out some weak points of the Declaration of Independence. He designed for an improved prison building called the Panopticon, that allowed prisoners to be watched by a single guard without them knowing it. His political philosophy concept is Utilitarianism which based on a principle that an action is right when it promotes happiness and wrong if it does not. I like that his interest is in anything that applied to society. He developed the Hedonic Calculus, that balance the pleasurable and painful effects of proposed actions. He became known internationally because of his writings and thinker and as the earliest member of Animal Rights. I do like that he saw the issue of women’s right ahead of time, that women should enjoy the same equal rights as men. -Cancun001
ReplyDeleteThe founder of modern utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham believed that the doing of good is the meaning behind utilitarianism. Bentham was born in London into a very wealthy family, he was a child prodigy and his father wanted him to excel in everything. As a young person, Bentham was bullied for being so weak and thin, yet the children loved to us him for his knowledge. He was a loner, for the reason he did not care for the ignorance of his peers. Bentham was only a mere twelve years old when he graduated, then moved on to Oxford. If you are not learning something educational then it is simply a waste of time in Bentham’s eyes. During the time of the Declaration of Independence, Bentham wrote a rebuttal and pointed out all of the weaknesses. Soon after he came up with the idea to open a panopticon prison. Basically the prison would be circular with a single watchman in the middle, the prisoners unaware will still behave. Unfortunately he ran out of funds for this idea. Bentham viewed utilitarianism as if an action is right it will promote happiness, and if an action is wrong it will promote unhappiness. This is a practical guide will make a more logical society. In order to pursue pleasure and avoid pain Bnetham came up with hedonic calculus. Hedonic calculus consists of seven parts including; intensity, duration, certainty, remoteness, extent, purity, and fecundity. Bentham was also an animal rights activist and believes in women's rights, which is incredible for this time. At the end of his life he left instructions on what he wanted physician, Thomas Southward to do with his corpse. He passed on June sixth, 1832, his body was dissected and preserved in the presence of his friends. To this day you can visit Bentham’s mummified head and wax model at the University College in London.
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This video was very informative about Jeremy Bentham and it really gave great insight into the type of person he was, even at a young age. After learning that not only at the age of 3 was reading fluently but by the age of 4 was writing in Latin. By the age of 12 Bentham was enrolled in classes at Oxford University, which is absolutely crazy to think about but considering his intellect made a lot of sense. The Panopticon prison concept was by far the most interesting thing in this video. The idea revolved around one big main watch tower in the middle with only one guard watching all of the inmates who surround the tower, but the inmates had no idea of knowing if they were being watched. His theory was that if the inmates had no idea they were being watched by the guard then they would regulate their own behavior in order to avoid punishment. I would have to agree that this is a very good idea because it could cause the inmate to rethink all of their actions once released because the thought of always being watched by other individuals in public who could judge them for their behavior. -Blues001
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