Psychological hedonism and the basis of motivation; the principle of utility and the criterion of moral judgement; security, expectation and liberty; subsistence, abundance, and equality and the conditions of stability; the security-providing principle; the disappointment-preventing principle and substantive justice.
Paul Kelly studied political philosophy at the University of York and from 1987-1989 was Bradley Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School
`a definite contribution to Bentham scholarship
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Times Higher Education Supplement
`Kelly has written an ambitious book of rich philosophical interest
which will be essential reading for Bentham's intellectual friends
and enemies alike
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Political Studies
`This book makes very full reference to Bentham secondary
literature and to current debates in moral and political theory.
Reasonably enough, the author expects no previous knowledge of
either body or material. Readers ignorant of one of these fields
will be reliably and fully informed about the other. Readers
knowledgeable about Bentham will still learn something about him
and be forced to face new challenges to their ideas.
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MIND
`Kelly's book has established an important set of issues for
Bentham scholarship as well as for utilitarian theory.
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Utilitas
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