A British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer, considered the father of Utilitarianism. Bentham's social reform publications included his Panopticon (1791) on prison reform, particularly remembered today in consequence of Michel Foucault's commentary on the idea. In Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789), his most important work, and Fragment on Government (1776), the source of his declaration that " it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong," he laid out the principles of Utilitarianism, a philosophy that advocated language that served as a vehicle for accurately communicating information, a purpose that the figurative and imaginative aspects of poetry could only threaten. Bentham did, however, favor the expansion of individual and economic freedom; equal rights for women in property, voting, and divorce; decriminalizing of homosexual acts; and the abolition of slavery, the death penalty, and physical punishment. [MW}