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Principles of legislation : from the ms. of Jeremy Bentham, bencher of Lincoln's Inn / Jeremy Bentham ; translated by John Neal ; edited by Etienne Dumont.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832.
- Bentham, Jeremy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 310 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Wells and Lilly, 1830.
- Summary:
- Having a two-fold object in view, the work herewith submitted to my countrymen is in two parts. By the first, which is nothing more than a familiar biographical sketch, they are brought acquainted with the man Jeremy Bentham: by the last, which may be regarded as an abridgment of his whole system of philosophy, with the Philanthropist, the Lawgiver, and the Statesman. Of the biographical sketch referred to, which precedes the following translation of his celebrated work on morals and law, by M. Dumont of Geneva, a small part has already appeared in the Yankee and other journals of our country; the remainder is entirely new. The whole of the second part has been carefully reviewed and compared with the originals, paragraph by paragraph. The readers (and the writers) of the Edinburgh, Quarterly, Westminster and North American Reviews, will now have what they never have had before--an opportunity of knowing the truth and the whole truth about the character and opinions, the philosophy and the faith of a man, whose followers--the calumniated Utilitarians--are now so numerous and so powerful, as to be reckoned a party in the British empire.
- Contents:
- 1. His general character
- 2. General view of his works
- 3. Familiar anecdotes of Mr. Bentham
- 4. Bentham's reminiscences
- Garrick in Abel Drugger
- Effect of old age
- Parry
- The panopticon
- His theory of punishments and rewards
- Style
- Work on evidence
- Father
- His first attempt in the law
- Dumont
- Rough language
- Summer dress
- Fear of ghosts
- Origin of Bentham
- His father
- Sleeps standing
- Avowal
- Butler
- Col. Young
- Writing
- Music
- Phrenology
- Benchers, what?
- domestic habits
- Fun of the secretaries
- Wedderbourne
- The musical society
- His grandmother Erskine
- Step-mother
- 5. Dr. Parr
- Mr. Parkes
- Col. Stanhope
- Dr. Maculloch
- Sympathy
- Penal code
- Helvetius
- Relatives on the side of the mother
- Poetry
- Reading to sleep
- singular habit of throwing up his hair
- Ghosts
- Marked and sheared
- Bed-chamber habits
- Mr. Smith, M. P.
- Breakfast
- Fruit before dinner
- His bed
- Servants
- Theory and practice at war
- Bowring
- Sir F. Burdett
- Sir Samuel Romilly
- Cobbett
- Mr. B.'s father
- Mother-in-law
- Quarrel with reform in the house
- Rhyming
- Love of order
- Humanity
- Bentham on style
- 6. Panopticon
- Magnificent project
- Poetry
- Fun
- Bowring Management
- Hume
- Goes to a Pantomime
- Aged Greek
- Mr. Gallatin
- Style of Dumont
- Dr. Johnson
- Boswell
- Voltaire
- Autumn
- Parallel between Bentham and Hobbes
- Biography, what?
- Sully's portrait
- 7. Chapter on utility ('The greatest-happiness principle.')
- 8. Biographical notice of M. Dumont
- 9. Sketch of the life and character of Stephen Dumont
- 10. Preliminary discourse
- 11. Of the principle of utility
- 12. Of the ascetic principle
- 13. The arbitrary principle, or principle of sympathy and of antipathy
- 14. Operation of these principles on the matter of legislation
- 15. Final explanation.
- Objections answered touching the principle of utility
- 16. Of the different kinds of pleasure and pain
- 17. Of pains and pleasures considered as sanctions
- 18. Of the value of pleasures and pains
- 19. Section I.
- Of the circumstances that influence sensibility, Section II.
- Secondary Circumstances which influences our sensibility, Section III.
- Practical application of this theory
- 20. Analysis of political good and evil
- How they are spread in society
- 21. Reasons for declaring certain acts to be offences
- 22. Of the limits which separate morals from legislation
- 23. Examples of false modes of reasoning on the subject of legislation.
- Notes:
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