Bentham: A Fragment on Government (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521359290)

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."

Author: Jeremy Bentham
ISBN-10: 0521359295
ISBN-13: 9780521359290
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/28/1988
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.45h x 5.37w x 0.41d