Jeremy Bentham

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

Il presente trattato, pubblicato per la prima volta a Londra nel 1780, uno dei pilastri, ancora oggi influenti, nel campo dell'etica pubblica e del rapporto tra diritto e morale. Gli uomini, col proprio comportamento, ma soprattutto i governi e i legislatori, si devono occupare del bene comune producendo la felicit per il maggior numero di persone. Il criterio per misurare la felicit il rapporto tra piacere e dolore. La massimizzazione del piacere e l'assenza di dolore la miglior condizione possibile per una vita felice. Le azioni da compiere, per essere considerate moralmente giuste, devono avere come conseguenza la capacit di aumentare il piacere e ridurre il dolore nella collettivit . Il pensiero di Bentham, noto come "utilitarismo" o "consequenzialismo", ha rivoluzionato in senso egualitario la visione etica, politica e giuridica dei Paesi Occidentali. Nuova traduzione di Otello Marcacci. Introduzione di Salvatore Primiceri.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

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A View of the Hard-Labour Bill - Being an Abstract of a Pamphlet is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1778. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

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The works contained in this volume, 'Supply without Burthen' and 'Proposals relative to divers modes of Supply', were drafted by Bentham in 1794, during an intense period of activity in which he set out systematically to review possible sources of public revenue. Bentham had long believed that the appropriation of a proportion of the estates of those dying without near relations offered a painless method of raising public revenue, and now developed the proposal in detail, before sending a précis to Charles Long, Secretary to the Treasury. Fifteen months later that précis, with some additions, was published as 'Supply without Burthen', and opens the present volume. Bentham drafted considerable additional material for 'Supply without Burthen' which was neither sent to Long nor published, and which is the source for four Appendices in the present volume. By late September 1794, Bentham envisaged 'Supply without Burthen' as the first of a related series of proposals for generating public revenue. The remaining proposals ranged from further painless expedients, through taxation with compensatory benefit, to taxation pure and simple. Since Bentham viewed all these proposals as connected elements of a single generic enterprise, the fruits of his labours (excepting the proposal which he did publish, namely 'Supply without Burthen') are published together for the first time in the present volume as 'Proposals relative to divers modes of Supply'. This work is followed by six Appendices which shed further light on Bentham's approach to raising public revenue, including his first articulation of what would reappear five years later as his Annuity Note Scheme.

Jeremy Bentham (Londres, 1748-1832) un des p res, sinon le p re, de l'utilitarisme s'adresse la Convention nationale de France en 1793. Ce texte qui ne sera livr au public qu'en 1830 d taille ses arguments en faveur de l'ind pendance n cessaire des colonies fran aises, lesquelles ne seraient pour la m tropole qu'une source d'ennuis et de ruine conomique.Jeremy Bentham (London, 1748-1832) one of the fathers, otherwise the father, of utilitarianism, gives a speech to the National Convention of France in year1793. This text which will be delivered to the pubic in year1830 details its arguments in favor the necessary independence of the French colonies, which would be for the metropolis only a source of trouble and economic ruin.

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation is a book by the English philosopher and legal theorist Jeremy Bentham "originally printed in 1780, and first published in 1789." Bentham's "most important theoretical work," it is where Bentham develops his theory of utilitarianism and is the first major book on the topic. Bentham was the first major philosopher to develop and defend a utilitarian theory of ethics. Like John Stuart Mill, whom he greatly influenced, Bentham believed that happiness or pleasure is the only thing that is good for its own sake. He believed that humans, by nature, are motivated exclusively by the desire for pleasure (a view known as psychological hedonism), and that ethically they should seek to maximize pleasure (a view known as "ethical hedonism"). In The Principles of Morals and Legislation, Bentham seeks to determine what a system of laws would look like if it was constructed on a purely utilitarian basis. To that end, Bentham offers painstaking analyses of the various kinds of pleasures and pains, the sources of pleasures and pains, how pleasures and pains should be measured, the morally and legally relevant components of human actions, the negative consequences of harmful acts, types of behavior that are "unmeet" for punishment, and the various classes of offences. The book contains several of Bentham's most best-known quotations. In Chapter 1, "Of the Principle of Utility," Bentham describes how actions are motivated by the desire for pleasure and are right insofar as they create utility or happiness: "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."