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Bentham, Law and Marriage - A Utilitarian Code of Law in Historical Contexts (Hardcover, New)
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Bentham, Law and Marriage - A Utilitarian Code of Law in Historical Contexts (Hardcover, New)
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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 marriage and the family. As
such his contemporaries were Hume, Locke and Milton; Wollstonecraft
and More. 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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