THE COLLECTED MAJOR WORKS OF JEREMY BENTHAM [Special Definitive and Unabridged NOOK Edition] Classics of Philosophy, Economics, Political Science and Law incl. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND LEGISLATION and PRINCIPLES OF PENAL LAW [Nook]

THE COLLECTED MAJOR WORKS OF JEREMY BENTHAM
[Special Definitive and Unabridged NOOK Edition]

Classics of Philosophy, Economics, Political Science and Law

Includes AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND LEGISLATION and PRINCIPLES OF PENAL LAW
[Nook]


EXCERPT

"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. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire: but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while. The principle of utility recognises this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity by the hands of reason and of law. Systems which attempt to question it, deal in sounds instead of sense, in caprice instead of reason, in darkness instead of light.

But enough of metaphor and declamation: it is not by such means that moral science is to be improved."

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE WORKS OF JEREMY BENTHAM
SECTION I: BENTHAM’S STYLE AND METHOD OF THINKING.
SECTION II : THE GREATEST-HAPPINESS PRINCIPLE AND ITS APPLICATION TO MORALS AND LEGISLATION.
SECTION III :THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH.—FALLACIES.—PRINCIPLES OF EVIDENCE.
SECTION IV : SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT.
SECTION IV : LAW REFORM.
SECTION VII : POOR LAWS, EDUCATION, AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS FOR NATIONAL AMELIORATION.
SECTION VIII : INTERNATIONAL LAW.
SECTION IX : POLITICAL ECONOMY.
SECTION X : LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS.†

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND LEGISLATION
PREFACE.
CHAPTER I : OF THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY.
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III : OF THE FOUR* SANCTIONS OR SOURCES OF PAIN AND PLEASURE.
CHAPTER IV : VALUE OF A LOT OF PLEASURE OR PAIN, HOW TO BE MEASURED.
CHAPTER V : PLEASURES AND PAINS, THEIR KINDS.
CHAPTER VI .
CHAPTER VII : OF HUMAN ACTIONS IN GENERAL.
CHAPTER VIII : OF INTENTIONALITY.
CHAPTER IX : OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
CHAPTER X : OF MOTIVES.
CHAPTER XI : OF HUMAN DISPOSITIONS IN GENERAL.
CHAPTER XII : OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF A MISCHIEVOUS ACT.
CHAPTER XIII : OF CIRCUMSTANCES INFLUENCING THE DEGREE OF ALARM.
CHAPTER XIV : REASONS FOR CONSIDERING CERTAIN ACTIONS AS CRIMES.*
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI : OF THE PROPORTION BETWEEN PUNISHMENTS AND OFFENCES.
CHAPTER XVII : OF THE PROPERTIES TO BE GIVEN TO A LOT OF PUNISHMENT.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
ESSAY ON THE PROMULGATION OF LAWS, AND THE REASONS THEREOF; WITH SPECIMEN OF A PENAL CODE.
ESSAY ON THE INFLUENCE OF TIME AND PLACE IN MATTERS OF LEGISLATION.

PRINCIPLES OF PENAL LAW
PART I: POLITICAL REMEDIES FOR THE EVIL OF OFFENCES.
PART II.— RATIONALE OF PUNISHMENT.
BOOK I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES.
BOOK II- OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENTS.
BOOK III: OF PRIVATIVE PUNISHMENTS, OR FORFEITURES.
BOOK IV: OF THE PROPER SEAT OF PUNISHMENT: OR SAY, OF MIS-SEATED PUNISHMENT.
BOOK V: OF COMPLEX PUNISHMENTS.
BOOK VI: MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS.
PART III: OF INDIRECT MEANS OF PREVENTING CRIMES.