On Reading Bentham

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

1-1972

ISSN

1469-817X

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Language

en-US

Abstract

We still read bits of Bentham today -- or anyway expect undergraduates to read them. For we do not look for much illumination there. We understand him so well, we see his defects so clearly, that we need hardly attend to the actual texts. But Bentham does have his uses. His books illustrate pure and simpleminded philosophical positions. And he proves the virtues of the younger Mill, measured by the degree John Stuart broke loose from his Benthamic shackles.

Comments

This review examines An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by J.H. Burns, H.L.A. Hart, and Jeremy Bentham and Of Laws in General by H.L.A. Hart and Jeremy Bentham.

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