{"id":18635,"date":"2018-12-11T10:37:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T16:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18635"},"modified":"2018-12-11T10:37:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T16:37:40","slug":"word-of-the-day-436","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/12\/11\/word-of-the-day-436\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Panopticon<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitarianism.com\/bentham.htm\">Jeremy Bentham<\/a>&#8216;s ideas on how the greatest happiness principle should be applied were not always well-conceived. Bentham spent much of his time and fortune on designs for the Panopticon. The Panopticon (&#8220;all-seeing&#8221;) was a prison. It was designed to allow round-the-clock surveillance of the inmates by their superintendent. Bentham&#8217;s intention was humanitarian; but penitentiaries are not the best advertisement for a utilitarian ethic.<\/p><cite><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitarianism.com\/panopticon.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Panopticon<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<strong>Utilitarianism.com<\/strong><\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Noted in &quot;Green Christmas: How to have an ethical and guilt-free festive season,&quot;\u00a0Alice Klein and Chelsea Whyte, NewScientist (1 December 2018, paywall): (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24032061-100-green-christmas-how-to-have-an-ethical-and-guilt-free-festive-season\/\" target=\"_blank\">Green Christmas: How to have an ethical and guilt-free festive season<\/a><\/em>,&#8221;\u00a0Alice Klein and Chelsea Whyte, <strong><em>NewScientist<\/em><\/strong> (1 December 2018, paywall):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>An extension of the ever-watchful threat is the Elf on the Shelf, a figurine that some parents place in their house that is said to be reporting to the North Pole like some kind of festive CCTV \u2013 [ethicist H. Peter] Steeves likens it to a panopticon.<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panopticon: Jeremy Bentham&#8216;s ideas on how the greatest happiness principle should be applied were not always well-conceived. Bentham spent much of his time and fortune on designs for the Panopticon. The Panopticon (&#8220;all-seeing&#8221;) was a prison. It was designed to allow round-the-clock surveillance of the inmates by their superintendent. Bentham&#8217;s \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/12\/11\/word-of-the-day-436\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18637,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18635\/revisions\/18637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}