 | Jeremy Bentham - Economics - 1843 - 456 pages
...there is no right, which ought not to be maintained so long as it is upon the whole advantageous to society that it should be maintained, so there is...jumbled with an undistinguishable heap of others, under any such vague general terms as property, liberty, and the like. One thing, in the midst of all this... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Constitutional law - 1843 - 618 pages
...maintained, in that same proportion it is wrong that it should be abrogated : but that as there is no riijht, which ought not to be maintained so long as it is...society that this or that right should be maintained orabolished, the time at which the question about maintaining or abolishing is proposed, must be given,... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Law - 1844 - 452 pages
...there is no right, which ought not to be maintained so long as it is upon the whole advantageous to society that it should be maintained, so there is...jumbled with an undistinguishable heap of others, under any such vague general terms as property, liberty, and the like. One thing, in the midst of all this... | |
 | William Jethro Brown - Legislation - 1914 - 344 pages
...rights be determined once and for all without reference to changing conditions of time and place. " To know whether it would be more for the advantage of society that this or that should be abolished," said Bentham, " the time at which the question about maintaining or abolishing... | |
 | John Herman Randall (Jr.) - Civilization - 1926 - 672 pages
...society, so there is no right which, when the abolition of it is advantageous to society, should not bo abolished. To know whether it, would be more for the...must be specifically described, not jumbled with an undistina^iishable heap of others, under any such vague general terms as property, liberty, and the... | |
 | John Herman Randall - History - 1976 - 722 pages
...society, so there is no right which, when the abolition of it is advantageous to society, should not bo abolished. To know whether it would be more for the...jumbled with an undistinguishable heap of others, under any such vague general terms as property, liberty, and the like.43 Individuals should be allowed the... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - History - 2002 - 558 pages
...there is not, it seems, any one of which any government can (in the cut-throat sense of the word can) can upon any occasion whatever abrogate the smallest...which the question about maintaining or abolishing it must be given, and the circumstances under which it is proposed to maintain or abolish it: the right... | |
 | Charles Robert McCann - Business & Economics - 2004 - 258 pages
...rights." It is in this context that Bentham makes his case for the resolution of rights into utility: That in proportion as it is right or proper, ie advantageous...jumbled with an undistinguishable heap of others, under any such vague general terms as property, liberty, and the like. (Bentham 1843, p. 501; emphasis in... | |
 | William A. Edmundson - Philosophy - 2004 - 244 pages
...stricture, if what is under discussion is the advantage of "maintaining or abolishing" a legal right: "To know whether it would be more for the advantage...right should be maintained or abolished . . . the right itself must be specifically described, not jumbled with an undistinguishable heap of others,... | |
 | Marie-Bénédicte Dembour - Political Science - 2006 - 8 pages
...context and the commitment to deduction rather than induction. To quote Bentham on these two features: To know whether it would be more for the advantage...under which it is proposed to maintain or abolish it . . ,132 If a collection of general propositions [such as is found in the French Declaration] were... | |
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That in proportion as it is right or proper, ie advantageous to the society in question, that this or that right - a right to this or that effect - should be established and maintained, in that same proportion it is wrong that it should be abrogated:... 