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Jeremy

(Encyclopedia) JeremyJeremyjĕrˈĭmē [key], English form of Jeremiah. The Epistle of Jeremy is a title given to the sixth chapter of Baruch.

utilitarianism

(Encyclopedia) utilitarianismutilitarianismy&oomacr;ˌtĭlĭtrˈēənĭzəm, y&oomacr;tĭˌ– [key], in ethics, the theory that the rightness or wrongness of an action is determined by its usefulness in…

Spencer, George John Spencer, 2d Earl

(Encyclopedia) Spencer, George John Spencer, 2d Earl, 1758–1834, British public official. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1780 but in 1783 inherited the earldom. In 1794, William Pitt…

Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour

(Encyclopedia) Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour, 1884–1941, English novelist, b. New Zealand, educated at Cambridge. His first two novels were failures, but with Fortitude (1913) he achieved financial and…

Spencer, Herbert

(Encyclopedia) Spencer, Herbert, 1820–1903, English philosopher, b. Derby. In 1848 he moved to London, where he was an editor at The Economist and wrote his first major book, Social Statics (1851),…

Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham was a key founder of Utilitarianism -- simply put, the philosophy that a moral act is one which produces the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. Bentham outlined this…

Jeremy Sumpter

Jeremy Sumpter was a teen actor actor when he took the title role in the high-profile 2003 film version of Peter Pan. Sumpter was born in central California, but spent most of his childhood in…

Jeremy Renner

Jeremy Renner starred in the 2009 film The Hurt Locker and won an Oscar nomination as best actor. Renner grew up in central California and did mostly stage work before coming to films and television…

Jeremy Piven

Jeremy Piven won his third Emmy in 2008 for his supporting role as Hollywood agent Ari Gold in the HBO series Entourage. Piven grew up in Evanston, Illinois in a theater family: his parents, Byrne…