Jeremy Bentham’s scientific contributions

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Publications (1)


The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
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January 1996

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Jeremy Bentham

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... The general theory of punishment can broadly be divided into two camps. To those in the first, consequentialism, the infliction of hard treatment is intrinsically bad-it can be justified only so far as it brings salutary consequences and prevents further evil (Bentham 1970). Punishment for wrongdoing might bring some satisfaction from "payback" (Nussbaum 2016, 29), but this feeling does not bring about any actual good. ...

Reference:

The Republican and Retributivist Punishment of Police Misconduct
The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
  • Citing Book
  • January 1996