Bentham on Liberty : : Jeremy Bentham's idea of liberty in relation to his utilitarianism /

Bentham on Liberty : : Jeremy Bentham's idea of liberty in relation to his utilitarianism / / Douglas Long.

Bentham on Liberty focuses on the crucial formative years, when the English social philosopher Jeremy Bentham was in his twenties and thirties between 1770 and 1790, and draws on the unpublished manuscripts held at University College, London, to throw a new light on his early intellectual developmen...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Long, Douglas,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1977
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE/ INSPIRATION
  • 1. The Enlightenment
  • 2. The school of example: influential writers on liberty
  • 3. The school of experience: some issues and thinkers of the 1760sand1770s
  • PART TWO/ INVENTION
  • 4. Fundamental words
  • 5. A'Comment'and a'Fragment'
  • 6. Fundamental propositions
  • PART THREE/ EXPANSION AND APPLICATION
  • 7. Of Laws in General
  • 8. 'Indirect legislation' and 'Matters of place and time'
  • 9. Two branches of the law
  • 10. Civil law
  • 11. The fruits of invention
  • 12. Freedom of the press and public discussion
  • 13. Epilogue: Philosophy, science, politics, and Bentham's social thought
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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