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Ideas of Jeremy Bentham, by Text

[British, 1748 - 1832, Born in London. Helped to found University College, London.]

1789	Intro to Principles of Morals and Legislation

p.8

5901

Is 'productive of happiness' the definition of 'right', or the cause of it? [Ross]

p.129

3554

Bentham thinks happiness is feeling good, but why use morality to achieve that? [Annas]

p.144

5934

Of Bentham's 'dimensions' of pleasure, only intensity and duration matter [Ross]

I.1

p.33

3777

Pleasure and pain control all human desires and duties

I.4

p.35

3778

The community's interest is a sum of individual interests

II.14 n8.9

p.52

3779

Unnatural, when it means anything, means infrequent

II.18

p.56

3780

We must judge a thing morally to know if it conforms to God's will

IV.1

p.64

3781

The value of pleasures and pains is their force

XVIII 1 n

p.50

20280

Large mature animals are more rational than babies. But all that really matters is - can they suffer?

1796	Anarchical Fallacies: on the Declaration of Rights

p.

20977

Natural rights are nonsense, and unspecified natural rights is nonsense on stilts

II.523

p.361

21003

Only laws can produce real rights; rights from 'law of nature' are imaginary

1827	Constitutional Code I

p.139

p.114

5271

Prejudice apart, push-pin has equal value with music and poetry