Benthamite Reviewing
| Author | : George Lyman Nesbitt |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 1966 |
| Genre | : Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
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Of Sexual Irregularities, and Other Writings on Sexual Morality
| Author | : Philip Schofield |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780199685189 |
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A series of essays which represents Bentham's attempt to address contemporary ideas of sexual morality.
Uncommon Sense
| Author | : Carrie D. Shanafelt |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2022-01-14 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0813946883 |
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Infamous for authoring two concepts since favored by government powers seeking license for ruthlessness—the utilitarian notion of privileging the greatest happiness for the most people and the panopticon—Jeremy Bentham is not commonly associated with political emancipation. But perhaps he should be. In his private manuscripts, Bentham agonized over the injustice of laws prohibiting sexual nonconformity, questioning state policy that would put someone to death merely for enjoying an uncommon pleasure. He identified sources of hatred for sexual nonconformists in philosophy, law, religion, and literature, arguing that his goal of "the greatest happiness" would be impossible as long as authorities dictate whose pleasures can be tolerated and whose must be forbidden. Ultimately, Bentham came to believe that authorities worked to maximize the suffering of women, colonized and enslaved persons, and sexual nonconformists in order to demoralize disenfranchised people and prevent any challenge to power. In Uncommon Sense, Carrie Shanafelt reads Bentham’s sexual nonconformity papers as an argument for the toleration of aesthetic difference as the foundation for egalitarian liberty, shedding new light on eighteenth-century aesthetics and politics. At odds with the common image of Bentham as a dehumanizing calculator or an eccentric projector, this innovative study shows Bentham at his most intimate, outraged by injustice and desperate for the end of sanctioned, discriminatory violence.
Sacrifice Regained
| Author | : Roger Crisp |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2019-08-21 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 019257695X |
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Does being virtuous make you happy? In this book, Roger Crisp examines the answers to this ancient question provided by the so-called 'British Moralists', from Thomas Hobbes, around 1650, for the next two hundred years, until Jeremy Bentham. This involves elucidating their views on happiness (self-interest, or well-being) and on virtue (or morality), in order to bring out the relation of each to the other. Themes ran through many of these writers: psychological egoism, evaluative hedonism, and - after Hobbes - the acceptance of self-standing moral reasons. But there are exceptions, and even those taking the standard views adopt them for very different reasons and express them in various ways. As the ancients tended to believe that virtue and happiness largely coincide, so these modern authors are inclined to accept posthumous reward and punishment. Both positions sit uneasily with the common-sense idea that a person can truly sacrifice their own good for the sake of morality or for others. Roger Crisp shows that David Hume - a hedonist whose ethics made no appeal to the afterlife - was the first major British moralist to allow for, indeed to recommend, such self-sacrifice. Morality and well-being of course remain central to modern ethics, and Crisp demonstrates how much there is to learn from this remarkable group of philosophers.
Benthamite reviewing: the first twelve years of the Westminster review 1824-1836, N.Y., Columbia U.P., 1934 bibl
| Author | : George Lyman Nesbitt |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
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Utilitarianism
| Author | : John Stuart Mill |
| Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 86 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3640234944 |
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Classic from the year 2008 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the 19th Century, - entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: First published in 1861. There are few circumstances among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been expected, or more significant of the backward state in which speculation on the most important subjects still lingers, than the little progress which has been made in the decision of the controversy respecting the criterion of right and wrong. From the dawn of philosophy, the question concerning the summum bonum, or, what is the same thing, concerning the foundation of morality, has been accounted the main problem in speculative thought, has occupied the most gifted intellects, and divided them into sects and schools, carrying on a vigorous warfare against one another. And after more than two thousand years the same discussions continue, philosophers are still ranged under the same contending banners, and neither thinkers nor mankind at large seem nearer to being unanimous on the subject, than when the youth Socrates listened to the old Protagoras, and asserted (if Plato's dialogue be grounded on a real conversation) the theory of utilitarianism against the popular morality of the so-called sophist. ...]
The Rationale of Punishment
| Author | : Jeremy Bentham |
| Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
| Total Pages | : 466 |
| Release | : 1830 |
| Genre | : Criminal justice, Administration of |
| ISBN | : |
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The Principles of Morals and Legislation
| Author | : Jeremy Bentham |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 1879 |
| Genre | : Civil law |
| ISBN | : |
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Discusses morals' functions and natures that affect the legislation in general. Bases the discussions on pain and pleasure as basic principle of law embodiment. Mentions of the circumstance influencing sensibility, general human actions, intentionality, conciousness, motives, human dispositions, consequencess of mischievous act, case of punishment, and offences' division.
Benthamite Reviewing
| Author | : George Lyman Nesbitt |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 1934 |
| Genre | : |
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Behold the Antichrist
| Author | : Delos Banning Mckown |
| Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2010-12 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1615925376 |
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During his long, productive life the great English philosopher and exponent of utilitarianism Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) wrote not just on political philosophy but also clandestinely on religion. Under the pseudonym of Philip Beauchamp he published an attack on natural religion called "Analysis of the Influence of Natural Religion on the Temporal Happiness of Mankind" and under the pseudonym of Gamaliel Smith he published a book of New Testament criticism called "Not Paul, But Jesus." In addition, Bentham bravely released under his own name" Church-of-Englandism and Its Catechism Examined," a thorough, biting critique of Anglican doctrine. These little-known works are discussed at length by philosopher Delos B. McKown in this informative contribution to Bentham scholarship. McKown introduces these major works on religion, and then presents an extensive synopsis of each. He defends Bentham against the criticisms of opponents where necessary, but does not hesitate to criticize Bentham when he feels he goes astray. McKown also shows how Bentham's attacks on the Christianity of his time, which denigrated human life in the here-and-now for some imagined future postmortem state of glory, fully complemented his utilitarian philosophy of the greatest happiness to the greatest number of people. This thorough analysis of three little-known works by one of philosophy's great minds makes an outstanding contribution to Bentham scholarship and will be of interest to humanists and philosophers of religion.
