This utilitarian philosopher called natural rights "Nonsense upon stilts"
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Jeremy Bentham - Wikipedia  Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer. He is regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. ... He called for the abolition of slavery, the abolition of the death penalty, and the abolition of ... He was an outspoken critic of the revolutionary discourse of natural rights and of the violence that...
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Jeremy Bentham - Wikiquote  He is best known as an early advocate of utilitarianism and animal rights. .... Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense  nonsense upon stilts. .... as an acute contemporary Swiss analyst suggests, one accepts the prevailing liberal (read 'socialist') philosophy that assumes that...
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Jeremy Bentham's Attack on Natural Rights | Libertarianism.org  Jun 26, 2012 ... Smith discusses the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham and why it so alarmed the ... we find similar expressions in a number of eighteenth-century philosophers, ... nonsense upon stilts So-called moral and natural rights are...
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Bentham, Jeremy | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy  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. ... Happiness, according to Bentham, is thus a matter of experiencing pleasure and lack of pain.
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Jeremy Bentham, by Ross Harrison - Utilitarian Philosophers  English philosopher who dreamed at a young age of founding a sect of philosophers called utilitarians and who lived to see his dream fulfilled. .... simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, nonsense upon stilts.'.
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Nature of Evil 029305 Mbp - Scribd  In this work we turn as it were to the other side of the picture. .... Publication of his popular essays; belated fame, following the collapse of Hegelianism in the fifties. ...... with the divine order of reason, he can pervert and destroy his nature in sin. ...... human nobility and in his obscenity, he is one with Goethe's Mephistopheles.
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Wikiquote:Quote of the Day - Wikiquote  I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. .... Aesop; If a man would pursue Philosophy, his first task is to throw away conceit. ... Harry Emerson Fosdick; In nature's infinite book of secrecy a little I can read. ..... Ancient proverb that was inscribed upon the temple of the Oracle of Delphi. ...... Langdon Smith ~.
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Self-Reliance - Wikipedia  Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay called for staunch individualism. ... It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
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Albert Camus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)  Oct 27, 2011 ... And his philosophy of the absurd has left us with a striking image of the human ... ambitions, he was confident enough as a philosopher to articulate not only his ... Camus's philosophy can be thus read as a sustained effort to ..... the contingency of Being and Nothingness, the fact that humans and things are...
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Oscar Wilde Quotes II - Notable Quotes  More quotes attributed to Irish poet and dramatist Oscar Wilde. ... necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men. .... One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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Jeremy Bentham, by Ross Harrison - Utilitarian Philosophers  However, while following his legal studies, Bentham became disgusted with ... by the practice of the law as it is, he turned instead to a study of what the law might be. .... 'a reason for wishing that a certain right were established, is not that right; ... used by the leading contemporary defender of British law William Blackstone.
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Wikiquote:Quote of the Day - Wikiquote  It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. ... The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. .... I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice ..... B. F. Skinner; The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors,...
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Arthur Schopenhauer (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)  May 12, 2003 ... Often considered to be a thoroughgoing pessimist, Schopenhauer in fact ... In Gttingen, he absorbed the views of the skeptical philosopher, Gottlob ... During this later phase of his life, Schopenhauer wrote a short work in 1836, .... Reinhold was a defender of Kant, and was known for his Philosophy of the...
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The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 2d series ...  For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can ..... [1] I think nothing is of any value in books excepting the transcendental and extraordinary. ...... The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. [1] ...... In the chapter "Emerson as Essayist," in Mr. John Albee's admirable...
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Kant-Era Flashcards | Quizlet  David Hume awoke this philosopher from his dogmatic slumber which then led to the ..... One work by him argues that materialism will invariably lead to skepticism and .... this author of A Treatise of Human Nature, an 18th-century empiricist Scotsman. ... For 10 points, name this Scottish philosopher who wrote A Treatise on...
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Atlas Shrugged - Agree or disagree with Rand's ideas, what ~are ...  Rand's objectivism as a philosophy is pretty rudimentary and her statements are ... Let me paraphrase: Based on your reading of her fiction (and non-fiction, if you've ..... the fullest, most context-keeping presentation of Rand's ideas possible). .... The only true single point wealth creators I can think of are authors or artists.
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William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, and the construction of ...  he acknowledges that ecocriticism is much more widely used (1-5). .... who raps Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud while wearing a college-...
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bermensch - Wikiquote  ... he remained critical of Nietzsche's superman as such; he saw man through ... He might have been called something above man, with his large plans, ... That's the genuine dyed-in-the-wool superman. ..... And all this has come about because the majority of pseudo-enlightened men of today object to any reminder of virtue,...
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jeopardy/2149_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  SUFFRAGETTE CITY | A utilitarian philosopher who worked with suffrage societies, he wrote 1869's "The Subjection of Women" | John Stuart Mill. right:.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote - Liberty Quotes Blog  ... by Ralph Waldo Emerson: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, ... as proposed by these philosophers and then apply them to the world around...
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The Practice of the Wild - Terebess  owe much to the many fine people and places that called these thoughts forth .... wild nature, and now the developed nations in particular have the witless power...