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Some unusual facts about Jeremy Bentham

Paper 2 Religion and Ethics, Utilitarianism / By Martin

Biographical details are almost always going to be irrelevant to your examination answers. So don’t mention any of this, but I thought that the following details were quite amusing. Bentham was fond of animals and kept a cat that he called Reverend Dr. John Langborn. He used jokey vocabulary with his circle of friends, which …

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Utilitarianism Course Notes for Edexcel students

Paper 2 Religion and Ethics, Utilitarianism / By Martin

Edexcel-friendly course notes on Utilitarianism (may also be useful for OCR and AQA).

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