Bentham

• Which college did Bentham attend?

  Queen's college, Oxford
• How old was Bentham when he went to Oxford?

  12
• What did Bentham train in?

  Law
• Did Bentham practice law?


  No
• What did Bentham spend his life doing?

  Engaging in social and political reform
• What did Bentham believe progress was hampered by?


  Those who hold in power
• What was the intention behind the panopticon?

  Decrease corruption and improve reform rates for prisoners
• What university was Bentham involved in establishing?

  UCL
• What qualities does UCL promote?

  social, legal and economic reform, equality and justice
• What did Bentham call natural law and natural rights?

  Nonsense on stilts
• Was utilitarianism always intended as a code of ethics?

  No, it started as a code of law
• What was the English legal system that Bentham lived with called?

  The "bloody code"
• How many offences were punishable by hanging in Bentham's times?

  200