This volume makes available one of the central texts in the development of utilitarian tradition, in the authoritative 1977 edition prepared by Professors Burns and Hart as part of Bentham's Collected Works. Certain that history was on his side, Bentham sought to rid the world of the hideous mess wrought by legal obfuscation and confusion, and to transform politics into a rational, scientific activity, premised on the fundamental axiom that "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."
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Originally prepared as a part of Bentham's Collected Works, this volume now makes one of the central texts in the development of utilitarian tradition available in its own authoritative 1977 edition. -- Book Description
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Originally prepared as a part of Bentham's Collected Works, this volume now makes one of the central texts in the development of utilitarian tradition available in its own authoritative 1977 edition.
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The first object which our Author seems to have proposed to himself in the dissertation we are about to examine, is to give us an idea of the manner in which Governments were formed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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The first object which our Author seems to have proposed to himself in the dissertation we are about to examine, is to give us an idea of the manner in which Governments were formed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aristocratical assembly, probable mischiefs, marginal heading, sinister interest, greatest happiness principle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
House of Commons, House of Lords, British Constitution, The British Government, Supreme Being New!
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- Political Writings by Jean-Francois Lyotard in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Of Laws in General (The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Principles of Legislation) by Jeremy Bentham on page 75, and page 108
- An Essay on the Principle of Population (v. 2) by James in Back Matter
- Ontological Relativity by W. V. Quine in Front Matter
- Defence Of Usury by Jeremy Bentham in Front Matter
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- The Province of Legislation Determined: Legal Theory in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Ideas in Context) by David Lieberman on 17 pages
- International Relations, Security and Jeremy Bentham (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics) by Gunhild Hoogensen on 9 pages
- Readings in the Philosophy of Law by Jules L. Coleman on 5 pages
- Remarks on the Use and Abuse of Some Political Terms by George Cornewall Lewis on 4 pages
- Utilitarianism (Problems of Philosophy) by Geoffrey Scarre on 4 pages
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