Benthamiana, Or, Select Extracts from the Works of Jeremy Bentham: With an Outline of His Opinions on the Principal Subjects Discussed in His WorksW. Tait, 1843 - 419페이지 |
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applied assumpsit balance of happiness Bentham called cause character common common law consequence constitution court court of equity crime criminal degree Deontology disposition effect employed English equal evidence evil existence fact falsehood favour France give given hand happen happiness honour human individual instance interest Jephthah judge justice labour language lawyers legislator legislature less liberty Lord Lord Lansdowne maleficence man's matter means ment mind mischief moral motive nation nature never oath object occasion offence operation opinion Panopticon Parliament party penal law perhaps perjury persons pleasure Poor Law possessed practice present pretended principle produced proposition punishment purpose question reason respect rule sanction sense sinecurists society sophism sort speak species supposed things tion trade truth Usury utilitarian verbal noun Westminster Hall whole word
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65 페이지 - Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be based only upon public utility. 2. The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
381 페이지 - Good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can,'
150 페이지 - I say the bond fide witness : for, in the case of a witness who by an adverse interrogator is really looked upon as dishonest, this is not the proper course, nor is it taken with him. For bringing to light the falsehood of a witness really believed to be mendacious, the more suitable, or rather the...
67 페이지 - Natural rights is simple nonsense : natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, — nonsense upon stilts.
3 페이지 - ... 8. We have one philosopher, who says, there is no harm in anything in the world but in telling a lie: and that if, for example, you were to murder your own father, this would only be a particular way of saying, he was not your father. Of course, when this philosopher sees anything that he does not like, he says, it is a particular way of telling a lie.
6 페이지 - ... there are men ? and whether even to the same man, the same thing, which is right to-day, may not (without the least change in its nature) be wrong to-morrow ? and whether the same thing is not right and wrong in the same place at the same time? and in either case, whether all argument is not at an end? and whether, when two men have said, "I like this," and "I don't like it," they can (upon such a principle) have any thing more to say.
2 페이지 - ... more than phrases: they insist but feebly upon the being looked upon as so many positive standards of themselves, and seem content to be taken, upon occasion, for phrases expressive of the conformity of the thing in question to the proper standard, whatever that may be. On most occasions, however, it will be better to say utility: utility is clearer, as referring more explicitly to pain and pleasure.
5 페이지 - ... a useful one) for your not doing it yourself : but if you go about, by word or deed, to do any thing to hinder him, or make him suffer for it, it is you, and not he, that have done wrong : it is not your setting yourself to blame his conduct, or branding it with the name of vice, that will make him culpable, or you blameless. Therefore, if...
331 페이지 - Of the president's chair, the back parallel to and not far distant from the fire : the chimney-piece projecting a foot or two from that side of the apartment formed a recess on each side. Alone in the recess, on the left hand of the president, stood Benjamin Franklin, in such position as not to be visible from the situation of the president, remaining the whole time like a rock in the same posture, his head resting on his left hand ; and in that attitude abiding the pelting of the pitiless storm.
82 페이지 - Right, the substantive right, is the child of law: from real laws come real rights; but from imaginary laws, from laws of nature, fancied and invented by poets, rhetoricians, and dealers in moral and intellectual poisons, come imaginary rights, a bastard brood of monsters, 'gorgons and chimeras dire'.