Though strongly in favour of the extension of individual legal rights, he opposed the idea of natural law and natural rights (both of which are considered "divine" or "God-given" in origin), calling them "nonsense upon stilts". He has also become known as an early advocate of animal rights. He called for the abolition of slavery, capital punishment, and physical punishment, including that of children. He advocated individual and economic freedoms, the separation of church and state, freedom of expression, equal rights for women, the right to divorce, and (in an unpublished essay) the decriminalising of homosexual acts. īentham defined as the "fundamental axiom" of his philosophy the principle that "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong." He became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism. – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. Jeremy Bentham ( / ˈ b ɛ n θ ə m/ 4 February 1747/8 O.S.
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