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1 sty 2002 · PDF | On Jan 1, 2002, Tony Draper published An Introduction to Jeremy Bentham's Theory of Punishment | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate.
Punishment was, for Bentham, a particular category of pain, produced not just as the result of some individual action, but of an action that could be labelled an
1 sty 2004 · What would naturally occur to anyone interested in Bentham’s views on punishment would be to study the book titled Rationale of Punishment, attributed to Jeremy Bentham on the title page as sole author, published in 1830 in London and in English.
17 mar 2015 · On the other hand, the implicit consequentialism of utilitarian theory is central to Bentham’s theory of punishment, in which the objective was to ensure that a punishment is in proportion to the mischief produced by a crime and sufficient to deter others from committing the same offence.
Bentham’s Theory of Punishment: Origin and Content 1. HUGO BEDAU. Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University. My aim today is to present a sketch of Jeremy Bentham’s views on punishment, its sources in his writings, and some of its central features. As you will soon see, what I have to say can perhaps be best described as work in progress.
Chapter XIII begins Bentham’s treatment of punishment. His first topic is the three main categories of cases where punishment is “unmeet,” or inappropriate. These all are cases where punishment fails to produce the most happiness.
Influenced by many enlightenment thinkers, especially empiricists such as John Locke and David Hume, Bentham developed an ethical theory grounded in a largely empiricist account of human nature. He famously held a hedonistic account of both motivation and value according to which what is fundamentally valuable and what ultimately motivates us ...
