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"Paul J. Adam" wrote:

I got a degree from University College London, and have seen Jeremy
Bentham's preserved body (he sits in one of the hallways, and is a
required presence at meetings of the governing body).

I'm not sure that you mean by "liberal" what many other people
understand by "liberal".

And I'm quite certain of the same for you.

As far as that goes, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone in the modern
political scene who would even accept Bentham's utilitarianism as
"liberal" in the modern sense. Look at the current "liberal" view that
the community has rights over the individual, for example...

Of course, the sort of people who would keep a 150 year old preserved
skeleton around would be considered something like "traditionalists" or
"reactionaries" nowadays, since many of Bentham's ideas have been
accepted in some form or another.

Political terms tend to shift over time. Look at what happened to the
names of political parties in the US, for example.

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