A fragment on government / Jeremy Bentham.

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

©1977

K334 .B444 1988

New authoritative edition / by J.H. Burns and H.L.A. Hart ; with an introduction by Ross Harrison.

0521350549
9780521350549
0521359295 (pbk.)
9780521359290 (pbk.)

xxx, 128 pages ; 23 cm.

(OCoLC)17621577

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.

"First published as part of The Collected works of Jeremy Bentham in 1977, in the volume (edited by J.H. Burns and H.L.A. Hart) containing A comment on the commentaries and A fragment on government"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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