Bentham: A Fragment on Government (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

Type

Book

Authors

Jeremy Bentham

ISBN 10

0521359295

ISBN 13

9780521359290

Tags

History, Political, Reference, Philosophy, Political Science

Description

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." - from Amzon

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