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30 Dec 2007, 3:54 am
But is the good really just a matter of pleasures and pains? [read post]
12 Aug 2007, 7:00 pm
What matters is how much good can be produced, not how it is distributed. [read post]
29 Jun 2007, 4:24 am
In a way, the visionaries sound more than a bit like Jeremy Bentham, who called for codification on the ground that the common law was frequently a chaotic mess of decisions, defying reason. [read post]
6 Apr 2007, 5:26 am
The distinctively Condorcetian contribution is that numbers matter; many near-incompetents can do better than a small panel of elite experts. [read post]
14 Feb 2007, 9:23 am
Viz., that when we deal with groups of people - political communities, for example - then the prudential thing can also be, in a certain sense, also a matter of morality. [read post]
10 Nov 2006, 3:39 am
Incidentally, I hadn't encountered the term dog law, but apparently it was coined by Jeremy Bentham with reference to judge-made criminal law: It is the judges (as we have seen) that make the common law. [read post]
26 Jun 2006, 5:14 pm
And Bentham, because each looks only to himself. [read post]