Benthamiana, Or, Select Extracts from the Works of Jeremy Bentham: With an Outline of His Opinions on the Principal Subjects Discussed in His Works

Copertina anteriore
W. Tait, 1843 - 419 pagine
 

Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto

Parole e frasi comuni

Brani popolari

Pagina 65 - 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.
Pagina 381 - Good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can,'
Pagina 150 - 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...
Pagina 67 - Natural rights is simple nonsense : natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, — nonsense upon stilts.
Pagina 3 - ... 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.
Pagina 6 - ... 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.
Pagina 2 - ... 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.
Pagina 5 - ... 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...
Pagina 331 - 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.
Pagina 82 - 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'.

Informazioni bibliografiche