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oapen-20.500.12657-313552023-04-04T11:47:03Z The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 2 L. S. Sprigge, Timothy philosophy jeremy bentham utilitarianism legal thought London Postmark Russia bic Book Industry Communication::B Biography & True Stories::BJ Diaries, letters & journals bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPC History of Western philosophy::HPCD Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPQ Ethics & moral philosophy The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to set up a national scheme for the provision of poor relief. Against the background of the debates on the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789, to which he made significant contributions, Bentham worked first on producing a complete penal code, which involved him in detailed explorations of fundamental legal ideas, and then on his panopticon prison scheme. Despite developing a host of original and ground-breaking ideas, contained in a mass of manuscripts, he published little during these years, and remained, at the close of this period, a relatively obscure individual. Nevertheless, these volumes reveal how the foundations were laid for the remarkable rise of Benthamite utilitarianism in the early nineteenth century. 2017-05-01 23:55:55 2019-01-11 13:45:08 2020-04-01T13:32:19Z 2020-04-01T13:32:19Z 2017 book 630697 OCN: 1030816700 9781911576297 9781911576280 9781911576303 9781911576310 9781911576327 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31355 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 630697.pdf http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/the-correspondence-jeremy-bentham-volume-two UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781911576273 10.14324/111.9781911576273 df73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2 9781911576297 9781911576280 9781911576303 9781911576310 9781911576327 560 open access
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The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to set up a national scheme for the provision of poor relief. Against the background of the debates on the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789, to which he made significant contributions, Bentham worked first on producing a complete penal code, which involved him in detailed explorations of fundamental legal ideas, and then on his panopticon prison scheme. Despite developing a host of original and ground-breaking ideas, contained in a mass of manuscripts, he published little during these years, and remained, at the close of this period, a relatively obscure individual. Nevertheless, these volumes reveal how the foundations were laid for the remarkable rise of Benthamite utilitarianism in the early nineteenth century.
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