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What circular prison design, proposed by Jeremy Bentham, is used as a metaphor for social control in philosophy?

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Panopticon

Proposed by Jeremy Bentham and later analyzed by Michel Foucault, the design allows a single guard to observe all inmates without them knowing. It serves as a metaphor for modern surveillance and social control.

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