![]() Happiness for Bentham was a matter of experiencing pleasure and a lack of pain. Bentham believed that what fundamentally motivated human beings were Pleasure and Pain. According to this theory, human beings should strive to achieve the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. Jeremy Bentham is most famous for the development of a theory of Happiness known as Utilitarianism. It’s because of Bentham’s philosophical ideas and their relevance to the imminent summer holidays. Now you are of course wondering at this point why I am writing about this rather arcane feature of UCL life. UCL was the first institution in England to admit students of any race, class or religion and the first university to admit female students on the same basis as their male counterparts. Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher (1748 – 1832) and his ideas about equal access to education led to the foundation of UCL, one of the world’s finest universities. ![]() As he instructed in his will, his body was dissected by his friend, the surgeon, Thomas Southwood Smith, and his skeleton was then preserved, mounted by a wax head, and dressed in its finery. Jeremy Bentham left his body to UCL for medical science and it is known as the ‘auto-icon’ or ‘image of self’. It is the preserved body of the philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, sitting in a chair and wearing his own clothes. ![]() In the south cloisters of University College, London, sits a rather strange figure. ![]()
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