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Bentham, Law and Marriage - A Utilitarian Code of Law in Historical Contexts (Paperback)
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Bentham, Law and Marriage - A Utilitarian Code of Law in Historical Contexts (Paperback)
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Jeremy Bentham's law of marriage is firmly based on the principle
of utility, which claims that all human actions are governed by a
wish to gain pleasure and avoid pain, and on the proposition that
men and women are equal. He wrote in a late eighteenth century
context of Enlightenment debate about the status of women, marriage
and the family, as did his contemporaries Wollstonecraft and More.
Bentham responded particularly to the thought of Milton, Locke,
Hume, Paley and to the French thinkers Montesquieu, Diderot and
Rousseau. These were the turbulent years leading to the French
Revolution and it is in this milieu that Mary Sokol seeks to
rediscover the 'historical' Bentham. Instead of regarding his
thought as 'timeless', she considers Bentham's attitude to the
reform of marriage law and plans for the social reform of marriage,
placing both his life and work in the philosophical and historical
context of his time.
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