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oapen-20.500.12657-313582023-04-04T11:33:31Z The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 1 L. S. Sprigge, Timothy philosophy jeremy bentham utilitarianism legal thought London Postmark Samuel Bentham 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 2020-04-01T13:32:29Z 2020-04-01T13:32:29Z 2017 book 630683 OCN: 1030816863 9781911576051 9781911576044 9781911576068 9781911576075 9781911576082 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31358 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 630683.pdf http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/the-correspondence-of-jeremy-bentham-volume-one UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781911576037 10.14324/111.9781911576037 df73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2 9781911576051 9781911576044 9781911576068 9781911576075 9781911576082 432 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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