The fully annotated text clarifies and develops historical allusions, and is provided with an especially detailed subject index

Bentham’s massive, unfinished Code (1822–32) is the major rete informatica of his last years and contains the most important statement of the theory of constitutional democracy which emerges after his well-known `conversion’ preciso political radicalism in 1809–10. He develops here con verso final form the theory and institutions of an ideal representative democracy addressed esatto `all nations and all governments professing liberal opinions’. This first elenco, based on the only registro Bentham himself published, covers chapters I-IX on the electorate, legislature, accessit minister, and administration.

The works presented durante this volume superiorita sopra fascinating detail Bentham’s dealings with such eminent figures as James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Emperor Alexander I, Prince Adam Czartoryski, Alexander Mavrokordatos, Bernadino Rivadavia, and Jose del Avvallamento

Per critical edition of three of Bentham’s works, Deontology and The Article on Utilitarianism previously unpublished. Together with his An Introduction esatto the Principles of Morals and Legislation, they provide per comprehensive picture of Bentham’s psychological and ethical views. This edition, based entirely on manuscripts written by Bentham of by his amanuenses, is equipped with verso full introduction linking the three works. Each rete informatica is accompanied by detailed critical and explanatory taccuino.

The four essays by Jeremy Bentham assembled sopra this volume date from the spring and summer of 1822 and are based exclusively on manuscripts, many of which have never before been published. Per the essays `Economy as Applied preciso Office’, `Identification of Interests’, `Supreme Operative’, and `Constitutional Code Rationale’, Bentham develops the general principles of constitutional law and government which underpin the detailed administrative provisions arnesi out durante Constitutional Code . Con accessit, original and penetrating discussions of such topics as sovereignty, constitutional rule, democratic and monarchical government, public finance, the aptitude and powers of officials, corruption, the influence of public opinion, and the delusive effect of religion and titles of honour, affirm Bentham’s condizione as a political theorist of the first rank.

The present elenco contains three essays, ‘Of Sexual Irregularities’, ‘Sextus’, and ‘General Ispirazione of Not Paul, but Jesus’, written in the mid-1810s but never before been published mediante authoritative form

Bentham’s central concern during the 1810s and 1820s was with the codification of the law. Rejecting both the common law and the historical approach onesto codification, he argued that a code of law should be based on per rigorous logical analysis of the categories of human action, and that each enactment should be followed by the reasons which justified it. Such an `all-comprehensive’ code containing an `interwoven rationale’ would signal per new evo per legislation. Once one state had adopted such verso code, other states would be obliged preciso follow its example, and Bentham would become in effect ‘legislator of the world’. Bentham attempted esatto persuade legislative authorities con the United States of America, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Greece, South and Central America, and elsewhere, to invite him to draft per code of law for them. The production of per methodology for codification ranks as one of Bentham’s outstanding theoretical achievements. Through the materials presented con this volume he emerges as verso seminal figure sopra the development of liberalism throughout Europe and America per the early nineteenth century.

Bentham presents the utilitarian case for sexual liberty on the grounds that the gratification of the sexual appetite constituted the purest form of pleasure, in opposition to the traditional Christian view that the only morally valide form of sexual activity was between one man and one woman, within the confines of offers classical Greece and Rome, where indivisible male same-sex relationships were regarded as normal, as alternative models of sexual morality, condemns the hostile portrayal of homosexuals in eighteenth-century literature, and calls for the removal of sanctions, whether imposed by religion, law, or public opinion, girlsdateforfree from all forms of consensual sexual activity, at least con so far as practised durante private. Bentham was, moreover, persuaded by Malthus’s argument that population growth tended onesto outstrip food supply. Durante these circumstances, non-procreative sexual activity had the additional benefit of not contributing puro an increase in the size of the population. Per the course of his conversation, Bentham expresses forthright views on various aspects of sexuality.