A fragment on government

Description:

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 the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

subjects: Constitutional law,  Criminal law,  Early works to 1800,  Ethics,  Great Britain,  History,  History and criticism,  Law,  Philosophy,  Political science,  Utilitarianism,  Bentham, jeremy, 1748-1832

People: William Blackstone,  William Blackstone Sir (1723-1780)

Places: Great Britain