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• over-consumption

  According to a study by the University of Iowa, between 5% and 8% of the world's population suffer from compulsive buying disorder, which can lead to an addiction to shopping. These figures are quite alarming. The first document is an extract from a book entitled ‘Don't eat this book’ by Morgan Spurlock, published in 2005, which deals with consumer society in the United States. The next document is an awareness campaign against over-consumption and the last document is a cartoon by Paul Com...

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Bentham and James Mill

  Bentham and James Mill Jeremy Bentham was born in 1748 in London; his prosperous father, a lawyer who became wealthy from property rather than the law, planned out for his son a brilliant legal career. After an early education at Westminster and Oxford he was called to the Bar in 1769. However, instead of mastering the complexities, technicalities, precedents and mysteries of the law in order to carve out a successful career, Bentham's response to such chaos and absurdity was to challenge the wh...

• Brahmo Samaj

  Brahmo Samaj The Brahmo (or Brahma) Samaj (‘Society of Brahma') is the name of a theistic society founded by Raja Rammohun Roy in Calcutta in 1828. It advocated reform, and eventually abolition, of the traditional caste system, as well as legislation aimed at improving the social status of women and greater protection of children. Also dedicated to Hindu religious reform, the Brahmo Samaj stressed a monotheistic doctrine with a policy of tolerance and respect for all major religions of the world...