Cover
Table of Contents
Preface
I Of the Principle of Utility
II Of Principles Adverse to that of Utility
III Of the Four Sanctions or Sources of Pain and Pleasure
IV Value of a Lot of Pleasure or Pain, How to be Measured
V Pleasures and Pains, Their Kinds
VI Of Circumstances Influencing Sensibility
VII Of Human Actions in General
VIII Of Intentionality
IX Of Consciousness
X Of Motives
XI Of Human Dispositions in General
XII Of the Consequences of a Mischievous Act
XIII Cases Unmeet for Punishment
XIV Of the Proportion between Punishments and Offences
XV Of the Properties to be Given to a Lot of Punishment
XVI, Sections 1-2 Division of Offences
XVI, Sections 3-4 Division of Offences
XVII Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence
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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

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Jeremy Bentham, from the Warren J. Samuels Portrait Collection
Bentham, Jeremy
(1748-1832)
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First Pub. Date
1789
Publisher
Oxford: Clarendon Press
Pub. Date
1907
Comments
1907 reprint of 1823 edition. (First printed 1780.)
Copyright
The text of this edition is in the public domain. Picture of Jeremy Bentham courtesy of The Warren J. Samuels Portrait Collection at Duke University.
About this Book

The First Edition of this work was printed in the year 1780; and first published in 1789. The present Edition is a careful reprint of 'A New Edition, corrected by the Author,' which was published in 1823.

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