Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A follower of Bentham; a believer in Benthamism; an adherent of the Benthamic philosophy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who believes in Benthamism.
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Examples
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Does success in the “new” internet demand that we all become “public” individuals? isnt Facebook just the continued expansion of the benthamite/panoptic society of control?
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Fear… of the Internet 2009
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Isn't this a rerun of the debates that discredited benthamite utilitarianism and left us with the subjectivist preference-satisfaction version?
Challenge to Cowen and Gilbert, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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isnt Facebook just the continued expansion of the benthamite/panoptic society of control?
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Fear… of the Internet 2009
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