 | Kenneth G. Butler - Law - 2001 - 320 pages
...difficulty is the way "utility" is being defined. This has a long provenance. Bentham proposed that, It is in vain to talk of the interest of the community without understanding the interest of the individual. A thing is said to promote the interest, or be for the interest, of... | |
 | Raymond Plant - History - 2001 - 404 pages
...Liberalism and Christ1an Ethics) The community is a fictitious body . . . the intercst of the community is what? The sum of the interests of the several members who compose it. (Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation) This book has had two intertwined... | |
 | David Rubinstein - Social Science - 2001 - 260 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 then is, what?—the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it. It is vain to talk of the interest... | |
 | Gary B. Herbert - 2003 - 382 pages
...says, "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" (The Works, vol. 1, 2). This takes us to what Bentham himself considered to be the genuine nature and... | |
 | Ruth F. Chadwick, Doris Schroeder - Applied ethics - 2002 - 384 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."27 Bentham's very simile — the community is like a body composed of members — gives the lie... | |
 | Stefan Napel - Business & Economics - 2002 - 204 pages
...happiness of the party whose interest is in question . . . The 134 Chapter 4. Bargaining and Justice interest of the community then is, what? - the sum...the interests of the several members who compose it. More specifically, it is "a principle, which lays down, as the only right and justifiable end of Government,... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - Enlightenment - 2003 - 496 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...understanding what is the interest of the individual. A thing is said to promote the interest, or to be for the interest, of an individual, when it tends... | |
 | David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - Nature - 2003 - 456 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."" Bentham's very simile — the community is like a body composed of members — gives the lie to his... | |
 | J. B. Schneewind - History - 2003 - 696 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... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - History - 2003 - 494 pages
...memhees. The interest of о the communitv then is, what? - the sum of the interests of the several memhers who compose it. It is in vain to talk of the interest...understanding what is the interest of the individuaL A thing is said to promote the interest, or to he JOT the interest, of an individual, when it tends... | |
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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. 
