There is a very frightening Xi at University College London, that is, when a school council has a dispute over an issue and the two sides vote unanimously, they invite Bentham, an old alumnus who has been dead for nearly two hundred years, to come out.
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was a pioneer of the utilitarian school, but this "utilitarian" is very different from the word we usually say, it is not a derogatory term, you can even understand it as "merit", and its core idea is:
Whatever maximizes utility is right and fair.
It was in this situation that he decided to bring out the greatest utility he could play as a person, this body, both during life and after death.
Back to the topic we just talked about - yes, University College London will really invite Bentham out, because he made a will before his death, asking for his body to be made into a specimen, and in the event of a voting deadlock, Bentham will have the "final say" to vote for the reformist side (see Figure 2).
However, according to the feedback of some netizens who studied in the UK, Bentham no longer has the right to decide in the voting, as for whether it was changed later, or whether it was not in the first place, and it is unknown if it has been falsely rumored before. It is worth mentioning that the "Bentham" body that everyone sees now is real, but the head is actually a wax figure, because his head was not preserved back then, and it was a bit scary, so it was hidden under his feet alone (I won't put the picture here). However, a speechless incident happened when a student stole Bentham's head to play football, and the school had to keep it and keep it under strict ......I have to say that young people in Britain are really unscrupulous!Bentham is known in history as the master of the "utilitarian" school, and he can still make himself shine after death, and can look down on life and death in this way, regardless of whether his views are correct or not, this person can be regarded as "the unity of knowledge and action". 