Panopticon (Jeremy Bentham)
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Michel Foucault ( Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison 1975 ) has described some main underlying principles about Bentham’s Panopticon. | Michel Foucault ( Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison 1975 ) has described some main underlying principles about Bentham’s Panopticon. | ||
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Assignment 3
Jeremy Bentham, an English philosopher int.al. is the groundfather of the Panopticon or Panopticum. A characteristic feature of Bentham's utilaristic theory is the idea that the rightness of an action depends on the value of its consequences. Following the principle of the prison’s guard(s) so-called onehunderd percent focus on the prisoners. Or at least have the idea of following all prisoners at one time. On their turn, prisoners have the feeling constantly being watched. An ultimate result will lead to a better controlled mindset of behaviour in any sense.
Michel Foucault ( Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison 1975 ) has described some main underlying principles about Bentham’s Panopticon.
Sources:
- Foucault, M. (1983) Afterword: the subject and power. In: Dreyfus, H.L. & Rabinow, P. Michel Foucault: beyond structuralism and hermeneutics. Univer-sity of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 208-226.
- Http://www.livingphilosophy.org.uk/philosophy/Jeremy_Bentham/
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