Bentham: A Fragment on Government

by Jeremy Bentham and Bentham Jeremy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521359295
• ISBN13: 9780521359290
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"