Utilitarianism and distributive justice : Jeremy Bentham and the civil law

P.J. Kelly

In this book Dr Kelly presents an exposition and sympathetic defence of Jeremy Bentham's utilitarian theory of justice. He seeks to rescue Bentham's reputation from crude 19th- and 20th-century caricatures, and to develop a sophisticated and subtle interpretation of Bentham's moral theory which places him at the heart of British Liberal tradition. Drawing heavily on Bentham's unpublished civil and distributive law writings, classical and recent Bentham scholarship and contemporary work in moral and political philosophy, Dr Kelly argues that Bentham developed a moderate welfare-state liberal theory of justice with egalitarian leanings, the aim of which was to secure the material and political conditions of each citizen's pursuit of his own conception of the good life in co-operation with others.

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[目次]

  • Psychological hedonism and the basis of motivation
  • the principle of utility and the criterion of moral judgement
  • security, expectation and liberty
  • subsistence, abundance, and equality and the conditions of stability
  • the security-providing principle
  • the disappointment-preventing principle and substantive justice.

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書名 Utilitarianism and distributive justice : Jeremy Bentham and the civil law
著作者等 Kelly, P. J.
Kelly P.J.
出版元 Clarendon Press;Oxford University Press
刊行年月 1990
ページ数 viii, 240 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0198254180
NCID BA11012570
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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