JEREMY BENTHAM: THE FATHER OF UTILITARIANISM IN ENGLISH JURISPRUDENCE
When the name Jeremy Bentham, is exemplified in the English law and practice, he is acknowledged as a theoretical jurist, which is, in sharp contrast to Sir William Blackstone, who was his former lecturer, and known of his careful philosophical review, dissented as commentaries on the English common law, during the 17 th and 18 th Century AD. Bentham became an arch-developer of the Utilitarian doctrine of the English law, and therefore, accorded, the status, as the father of Utilitarianism. Utilitarian, in the normative ethics of the law, from it inception within the 18 th Century AD, had examined ‘Actions’ as either ‘Right’ or ‘Wrong’, and the effects, either creating happiness /pleasure or unhappiness /pain, which goes beyond the performer of the action, to it community. In the writings of Bentham, on censorial jurisprudence, of what the law ought to be, as an analysis to the existing English legal system of the 17 th Century AD, and the development of utilitar...