Jeremy Bentham Bentham's auto-icon was on display in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Breuer location. Bentham's ambition in life was to create a "Pannomion", a complete utilitarian code of law. He not only proposed many legal and social reforms, but also expounded an underlying moral principle on which they should be based. This philosophy of utilitarianism took for its "fundamental axiom", "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong"". Bentham claimed to have borrowed this concept from the writings of Joseph Priestley, although the closest that Priestley in fact
Jeremy Bentham Stuart Mill, the legal philosopher John Austin, as well as Robert Owen, one of the founders of utopian socialism. He "had considerable influence on the reform of prisons, schools, poor laws, law courts, and Parliament itself." On his death in 1832, Bentham left instructions for his body to be first dissected, and then to be permanently preserved as an "auto-icon" (or self-image), which would be his memorial. This was done, and the auto-icon is now on public display at University College London (UCL). Because of his arguments in favour of the general availability of education, he has been described as