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Jeremy Bentham on the Utility Principle
Correspondent to discovery and improvement in the natural world, is reformation in the moral: if ...
A.V. Dicey noted that a key change in public thinking during the 19th Century was the move away from the early close association between “peace and retrenchment” in the size of the government (1905)
One example of this change in political opinion is to be found in the altered attitude of the pub...
Jeremy Bentham on rights as a creation of the state alone (1831)
Rights are, then, the fruits of the law, and of the law alone. There are no rights without law—no...
Jeremy Bentham argued that the ruling elite benefits from corruption, waste, and war (1827)
Under a government which has for its main object the sacrifice of the greatest happiness of the g...
Jeremy Bentham relates a number of “abominations” to the French National Convention urging them to emancipate their colonies (1793)
The attempt, I say, is iniquitous: it is an aristocratical abomination: it is a cluster of aristo...
Bentham on the liberty of contracts and lending money at interest (1787)
Among the various species or modifications of liberty, of which on different occasions we have he...
Adam Ferguson on Love, Self-Interest, and Pleasure
Love is an affection which carries the attention of the mind beyond itself, and is the sense of a...
Bentham on the proper role of government: “Be Quiet” and “Stand out of my sunshine” (1843)
We have seen above the grounds on which the general rule in this behalf—Be quiet—rests. Whatever ...
Jeremy Bentham on how the interests of the many (the people) are always sacrificed to the interests of the few (the sinister interests) (1823)
Sinister interests, two in the same breast—lawyer’s interest and ruling statesman’s interest: law...
Bentham on how “the ins” and “the outs” lie to the people in order to get into power (1843)
By the name of fallacy, it is common to designate any argument employed, or topic suggested, for ...
Thomas Hodgskin argues for a Lockean notion of the right to property (“natural”) and against the Benthamite notion that property rights are created by the state (“artificial”) (1832)
I look on a right of property—on the right of individuals, to have and to own, for their own sepa...
James Mill on Women and Representative Government
One thing is pretty clear, that all those individuals whose interests are indisputably included i...
Benjamin Constant on the difference between rights and utility (1815)
Right is a principle; utility is only a result. Right is a cause; utility is only an effect. To w...
James Mill on the “sinister interests” of those who wield political power (1825)
We have seen already, that if one man has power over others placed in his hands, he will make use...
Friedrich Hayek rediscovers the importance of Henry Thornton’s early 19th century work on “paper credit” and its role in financing the British Empire (1802)
To most of the contemporaries of Henry Thornton his authorship of the book which is now reprinted...
Yves Guyot on the violence and lawlessness inherent in socialism (1910)
Socialist policy is a permanent menace to the liberty and security of citizens, and cannot theref...
Francis Hutcheson’s early formulation of the principle of “the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers” (1726)
In comparing the moral Qualitys of Actions, in order to regulate our Election among various Actio...
James Mill on the Nature of Those Who Govern
Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whet...
William Paley dismisses as a fiction the idea that there ever was a binding contract by which citizens consented to be ruled by their government (1785)
Smoothly as this train of argument proceeds, little of it will endure examination. The native sub...