An edition of A fragment on government
(1776)
A fragment on government
by Jeremy Bentham
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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.
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A fragment on government
1988, Cambridge University Press
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- New authoritative ed. / by J.H. Burns and H.L.A. Hart ; with an introduction by Ross Harrison.
0521350549 9780521350549
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A fragment on government: being an examination of what is delivered, on the subject of government in general in the introduction to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries: : With a preface, in which is given a critique of the work at large.
1776, Printed for T. Payne ... P. Elmsly ... and E. Brooke ...
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