Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice: Jeremy Bentham and the Civil Law
By Jablonski, Scott R.In this book Dr Kelly presents an exposition and sympathetic defence of Jeremy Bentham's utilitarian theory of justice. He seeks to rescue Bentham's reputation from crude 19th- and 20th-century caricatures, and to develop a sophisticated and subtle interpretation of Bentham's moral theory which places him at the heart of British Liberal tradition. Drawing heavily on Bentham's unpublished civil and distributive law writings, classical and recent Bentham scholarship and contemporary work in moral and political philosophy, Dr Kelly argues that Bentham developed a moderate welfare-state liberal theory of justice with egalitarian leanings, the aim
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In this book Dr Kelly presents an exposition and sympathetic defence of Jeremy Bentham's utilitarian theory of justice. He seeks to rescue Bentham's reputation from crude 19th- and 20th-century caricatures, and to develop a sophisticated and subtle interpretation of Bentham's moral theory which places him at the heart of British Liberal tradition. Drawing heavily on Bentham's unpublished civil and distributive law writings, classical and recent Bentham scholarship and contemporary work in moral and political philosophy, Dr Kelly argues that Bentham developed a moderate welfare-state liberal theory of justice with egalitarian leanings, the aim of which was to secure the material and political conditions of each citizen's pursuit of his own conception of the good life in co-operation with others.