...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...

...Introduction to Principles of Morals and Legislation. " The interest of the community then, is what? — the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it." " He was an enthusiastic botanist, and his mania for classifying and codifying may owe something to...

...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 was Bentham's idea ths>t pleasures and pains were necessarily and solely to be considered as quantities,...

...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." 30 The problem of the social reformer is no longer to seek what is natural or divine in society; it...

...persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members'.2 And the interest of the community is 'the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it'.3 To say, therefore, that legislation and government should be directed to the common good is to...

...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." * There is an apparent toughness and empirical matterof-factness in this statement. But the hard ice...

...person's interests is whatever adds to the quantity of these pleasures; the interest of the community is "the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it" [PML 1.4]. The role of political government is to recognize that pleasure and pain, happiness and its...

...considered äs constituting äs it were its members. The interest of the Community is then, what? - the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it."; Jeremy Bentham, The Principles of Moral« and Legislation, hrsg. v. LJ Lafleur, New York 1948, S. 3...

...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. V. It is in vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest...

...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. 6 Jeremy Bentham Bentham's doctrine was radically individualistic and egalitarian: He viewed society...