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JEREMY BENTHAM'S ECONOMIC WRITINGS - Three Volume Set Critical Edition based on his Printed Works and Unprinted Manuscripts
by Bentham, Jeremy ; W. Stark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
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About This Item
London: George Allen and Unwin for Royal Economic Society. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1952-54. First Edition. Hardcover. 412; 458; 600 pages; Clean and secure in original black cloth bindings in very good dustjackets. Jeremy Bentham (1748 -1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. Bentham defined as the "fundamental axiom" of his philosophy the principle that "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong." He became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism. He advocated individual and economic freedoms, the separation of church and state, freedom of expression, equal rights for women, the right to divorce, as well as for the abolition of slavery, capital punishment and physical punishment, including that of children. Though strongly in favour of the extension of individual legal rights, he opposed the idea of natural law and natural rights (both of which are considered "divine" or "God-given" in origin), calling them "nonsense upon stilts." .
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- Bookseller
- Antiquarian Book Shop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44043
- Title
- JEREMY BENTHAM'S ECONOMIC WRITINGS - Three Volume Set Critical Edition based on his Printed Works and Unprinted Manuscripts
- Author
- Bentham, Jeremy ; W. Stark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George Allen and Unwin for Royal Economic Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952-54
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00
- Keywords
- Jeremy Bentham, Usury, Philosophy of History, Utilitarianism
- Bookseller catalogs
- European History; Social History;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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At The Antiquarian Book Shop, located in Georgetown - an historic neighborhood of Washington, D.C. we have been buying, selling & appraising rare, interesting and scholarly books in Georgetown for more than 30 years. Over those many years we have taken great pleasure from satisfying our customers' eclectic literary requirements in the shop and hope to continue in that tradition now that we have moved our operation on-line.Currently, our catalogued inventory includes about 4,000 books from the sixteenth century through the twentieth century in a variety of subject areas. Our stock comprises antiquarian books, collectible books and scholarly books, as well as a selection of antique prints and ephemera.The books listed here represent only a small portion of our total inventory. We are in the process of cataloguing the extensive holdings in our warehouse (15,000+ books) and hope to flesh out these pages over the months to come. Our new format allows us to expand & update our listings frequently. We have included images of many items listed to better convey their quality and condition.
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