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" The community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community then is, what? — the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it. "
The Schoolmaster, and Edinburgh Weekly Magazine - Page 82
1832
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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Jeremy Bentham - Crime - 1907 - 422 pages
...consti«^_«— "~ , ^^— •— - . • •— — •_ -• _ tuting as it were its members. vjhe interest of the community then is, what ? — the...of the interests of the several members who compose itj V. It is in vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest...
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The Classical Moralists: Selections Illustrating Ethics from Socrates to ...

Benjamin Rand - Ethics - 1909 - 832 pages
...community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community...the interests of the several members who compose it. V. It is in vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest...
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Het sociale utilisme van Bentham

Jan Hendrik Jacobus Antonie Greyvenstein - Utilitarianism - 1911 - 228 pages
...gemeenschap als „a fictitious body composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community...interests of the several members who compose it". *) Zooals J. S t. M i 1 1 het uitdrukt : „Benthams idea of the world is that of a collection of persons...
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Calendar, Part 3

University of Calcutta - 1912 - 746 pages
...The science of the State is the science of human evolution." (6) " The interest of the community in the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it." (c) " Society is a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living...
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Studies, Volume 2

Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1914 - 426 pages
...community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community...interests of the several members who compose it." In those tight words there is no room for the shadow of a dream of a thought of any relationship to...
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Taxation and the Distribution of Wealth: Studies in the Economic, Ethical ...

Frederic Mathews - Social problems - 1914 - 706 pages
...misconception. Bentham,1 advances the apparently axiomatic proposition that the interest of the community is "the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it." Such is doubtless the conventionally recognized significance of the term, yet, studied in the light...
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A Historical Introduction to Ethics

Thomas Verner Moore - Ethics - 1915 - 184 pages
...community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting, as it were, its members. The interest of the community...of the interests of the several members who compose it."2 In the last analysis, therefore, the welfare of the individual must be the standard of right...
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The Warner Library, Volume 3

Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - Literature - 1917 - 712 pages
...community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting, as it were, its members. The interest of the community,...interests of the several members who compose it. It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual....
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Carlyle and Mill: Mystic and Utilitarian, Volume 38

Emery Edward Neff - 1924 - 354 pages
...as it were its members," he wrote in his Introduction to Principles of Morals and Legislation, ' ' The interest of the community then, is what? — the...the interests of the several members who compose it. ' ' He was an enthusiastic botanist, and his mania for classifying and codifying may owe something...
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English Theories of the Functions of Government Since 1776

Frank Paddock - 1925 - 430 pages
...government.* The community did not have a personality of its own. The interests of the community was the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it. John Stuart Mill opposed an 53 James Mill, Essay on Government. l-2. 54 Bentham, Fragment on Government...
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