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15 Jul 2010, 9:16 pm
My intellectual influences definitely included, however, the great figures of the British traditions in philosophy and political theory, Locke, Hume, Bentham, Mill, etc., and, probably at the top of my list, Hobbes. [read post]
20 Jun 2010, 8:58 am
All of the great moral and political philosopher, from Plato and Aristotle, through Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Bentham, and Mill, to contemporary figures like Thomas Scanlon and Derek Parfit have engaged in debates about the nature of the human good. [read post]
17 Apr 2010, 3:00 am
You believe you can do the sorts of balancing ex ante that Jeremy Bentham also believed in. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 11:42 am
I suspect it is rather a matter of whom we feel deserves our loyalty. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 8:58 am
Surely it is a matter of moral indifference! [read post]
14 Feb 2010, 3:45 pm
What matters is how much good can be produced, not how it is distributed. [read post]
14 Feb 2010, 8:58 am
The move follows Lord Bach’s statement, in the House of Lords, that it is a matter for individual prisoners to pursue if they feel that they are being denied the vote. [read post]
28 Jan 2010, 11:08 am
Proposition (a) would probably be endorsed by, say, Kant, Jeremy Bentham, and maybe William O. [read post]
8 Dec 2009, 2:30 am
According to Tress, early 19th century disciples of English philosopher Jeremy Bentham believed the criminal code should be codified. [read post]
16 Nov 2009, 12:19 pm
In philosophy, it is associated with Jeremy Bentham and utilitarianism; in that context utility means, roughly, happiness. [read post]
19 Jul 2009, 10:29 am
It does not matter how much was spent in taking the pictures and digitising the paintings, what matters is the investment in creating the database proper, not its contents. [read post]
31 May 2009, 2:10 pm
All of the great moral and political philosopher, from Plato and Aristotle, through Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Bentham, and Mill, to contemporary figures like Thomas Scanlon and Derek Parfit have engaged in debates about the nature of the human good. [read post]
26 Apr 2009, 2:26 pm
But is the good really just a matter of pleasures and pains? [read post]
15 Feb 2009, 6:21 am
It could reflect the new priorities for this century, like the well-being of children, or sustainable development - matters which were not priorities in the middle of last.Emphasis on responsibilitiesSo let me now turn to why we consider responsibilities to be so fundamental a part of our proposed reforms.Over the decades since the war there has been a gradual erosion of many of the informal social bonds that once held us together, the bonds of class, church, where w [read post]
9 Nov 2008, 4:00 pm
Bentham simply assumes that pleasure is a single homogeneous type of sensation, varying only in intensity and duration. [read post]
9 Nov 2008, 1:10 pm
What matters is how much good can be produced, not how it is distributed. [read post]
2 Apr 2008, 7:19 am
One of the most revolutionary products of the French Revolution, recognised as such with horror by Burke and Bentham among others, was the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen. [read post]
17 Mar 2008, 6:50 am
I will further argue that the power of the debate to speak to us today is a product of the way in which it connects with pressing political issues, notwithstanding the fact that its analysis may be, as a matter of logic, contingently rather than necessarily so connected. [read post]
7 Mar 2008, 8:00 am
The subtext for the discussion of international law method might be the decline of Kant and the rise of Bentham. [read post]
24 Feb 2008, 4:07 pm
As a practical political matter, it especially moved this way because of the fact that, unlike most other leading international NGOs, its constituent national chapters are membership organizations. [read post]
