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Bentham - OF THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY

understanding what is the interest of the individual 8 A thing is said to promote the interest, or to be for the interest, of an individual, when it tends to add to the sum total of his pleasures: or, what comes to the

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Bentham’s usage is just a cause; he puts in the adjective, presumably, to mark it off from ‘final cause’, which meant ‘purpose’ or ‘intention’ or the like, though in fact he uses ‘final cause’ only once in this work expensive: When Bentham speaks of a punishment as being

Classical Utilitarianism: Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne

Benthams argument for representative democracy

Bentham and Representative Democracy Part 1 1 Bentham's argument for representative democracy 1 Introduction It is commonly claimed that Jeremy Bentham underwent a “transition to political radicalism” during the last couple of decades of his life 1 The claim refers to his conversion to defending

Jeremy Bentham An Introduction to the Principles of Morals

2 V It is in vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual A thing is said to promote the interest, or to be for the interest,

“Happiness Is the Greatest Good” by Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham Bentham, The Warren J Samuels Portrait Collection at Duke University About the author Jeremy Bentham’s (1748-1832) abiding concern in life was the total reform of British society and law based on the princi-ple of utility He believed this principle was the most reasonable guide to both individual morality and public policy

Happiness and Utility: Jeremy Bentham’s Equation

Jeremy Bentham’s Equation J H BURNS University College London Doubts about the origin of Bentham’s formula, ‘the greatest happiness of the greatest number’, were resolved by Robert Shackleton thirty years ago Uncertainty has persisted on at least two points (1) Why did the phrase largely disappear from Bentham’s writing

Benthams Philosophical Politics

Bentham's empirical epistemology, materialist metaphysics, nominalist ontology and referential theory of language For Bentham these were the appropriate "tools" for clarifying or demys- tifying the "fictions" of current legal practice and conventional modes of legal theorizing In sum, what we find in these manuscripts is an analytical

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Essays on Bentham and Coleridge - Early Modern Texts

Essays on Bentham and Coleridge John Stuart Mill Glossary clerisy: ‘A distinct class of learned or literary persons’ (OED) This is the ‘primary meaning’ referred to on page48