| Bentham: A Fragment on Government Contributor(s): Bentham, Jeremy (Author), Harrison, Ross (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1139163671 ISBN-13: 9781139163675 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $494.00 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Political Science |
| Dewey: 320 |
| Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |