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
John Armstrong (British writer/philosopher) as "the life-support system for high-quality relationships to people, ideas and objects". He is friends with Alain de Botton and the two have jointly authored the book "Art as Therapy" (2013). He works with The School of Life news website "The Philosophers’ Mail". John Armstrong (British writer/philosopher) John Armstrong (born 1966) is a British writer and philosopher living in Hobart, Australia. He was born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and London, later directing the philosophy program at the University of London's School of Advanced Study. Armstrong was philosopher in residence at the Melbourne Business School and senior adviser to