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Preparatory Principles (Hardcover)
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Preparatory Principles (Hardcover)
Series: The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham
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Preparatory Principles is not a linear text in the conventional
sense, but consists of a series of short passages on a variety of
topics, whose themes are summarised in marginal headings. The
material constitutes a philosophical commonplace book, compiled by
Bentham in the mid-1770s, in which he worked out the foundational
ideas for his new science of legislation. He then drew on this
material when composing such works as A Fragment on Government and
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.
Inspired by such figures as John Locke and Claude Adrien Helvetius,
Bentham developed an original ontological and epistemological basis
for legal terminology, with the aim of replacing the traditional
terminology of English law with that of universal jurisprudence.
The work that dominates the text, in that Bentham returns to it
time and time again in order to offer criticism of it, is William
Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. While unorganized
and fragmentary, the material in Preparatory Principles constitutes
a remarkable record of the evolving ideas of a major legal
philosopher at a formative stage of his career.
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