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A cloud of words |
Angry over maericas policy towards canada, bentham referred to the us constitution guarantee of natural rights such as life, liberty and the puruit of hapiness as merely a cloud of words |
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a fragment on government |
written by bentham stressing his dislike for the law, decried the universal inaccurayc and confusion which pervaded the law |
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attarctive force of pleasure |
according to bentham, pleasure plays a similar role newtons gives to the workings of nature on the basis of gravitational attraction in the moral and political spheres |
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Bondservant |
an invidivual who is a virtual slave to it sowner until the monetary obligation is paid. mill sees a woman status as a bondservant to men |
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Common law |
As stemming from an ancient collection of unwritten maxims customs and common law is the root of all english law |
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considerations of representative government |
written by john stuart mill, major theme is that participation in political activity can have valuable education effects |
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Deontological theory |
A dvisiion of moral theory from the Greek deon, which mean necessary |
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Deterrence view |
the utiliarian view, the purpose of punishment is to discourage or deter certain kinds of conduct |
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Essay on governmetn |
Written by James mil as an utilitarian defense of democracy |
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Feliclific Calculus |
Bentham's belief that precise asssessment of the consquences of idfferent courses of action is possible only if each of the varitalbe can be measure excatly and can be added and subtracted to yield precide scores |
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five feature of liberal political theory |
its centerpiece is the invidiaul who is a rational self interested being; the community is regarded as nothing more than a collection of individuals, politics is views as an instrumental means to advance interests beyond self; the clasical liberal conception of the state to include its function and instituions is viewed as negative and minimal |
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Freeom of Asscoation |
the right to be affiliated with others without interference from government |
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Harm principle |
according to john stuart mill, the harm principle means that society cna limit liberty to prevent harm and only for his reason |
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Harriet taylor |
John stuar mills wife and leader of the british women movement |
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history of british india |
written by jamesm mill |
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homogenieious real entities |
according to bentham pleasue and pain are homogeneious real entities |
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inviduality |
according to mill, people's ability to live and act as they please as long as they do not harm others in doing so |
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interest in community |
according to bentham the sum of the community is no more than the people who constitute it |
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legal positivism |
the concept that law is limited to the soverign commands; every law is a command or its opposite |
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librty of conscience |
according to john stuart mill, the ability to express and publish one's opininon and the rights live as one pleases |
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marus aurelisu |
roman emperor considered to be the one of the wisets and virtuous men who also committed the crime of persecurit christianity |
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moral arithemtic |
bnethams view that punishment should be used nly when it will deter greater evils andd assessed only for intentional actions of vilated existing laws |
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negative freedom |
according to mill in on liberty, the ability for men to be free withou interference or coercion |
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other regarding |
the public areas of life in oppposition to the self regarding the private areas of life. other regarding behavriou is open for govnement or societal intervention because it does harm to others. |
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on liberity |
written by john stuart mill in defense of individual liberty |
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one very simple principle |
according to john stuart mill, the onevery simple principle is that the sole end ofr which mankind are warranted indivdually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self protection |
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pain and pleasure |
according to bentham's utiliartian philogsophy, mandkind is governed by two soveright masters namely pain and pleasure |
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poor law commission |
part of the 18th century social reform movement in englanh, established to provide care for the indignent |
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principles of morals and legislations |
bentham's publication detialing his suggestions for refroming the british legal system |
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psychological hedonism |
the claim that people always pursue pleasure |
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qualitative and quantitative aspect of pleasure |
according to mill, if liberity is necessary for the development of higher facilities it must be protcted. self regarding activities must be defended for the sake of higher pleasures |
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rational and judicial evidence |
bentham's examination of the british legal system to include criminal law the prison system uels of evidence and judicial procedures |
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rehabilitation view |
purpose of punishment is to improve the moral condition of the malefacotr so he will be a better person and will not commit future times |
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retributitive view |
purpopse of punishment is to seek revenge |
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school of depotisim |
john stuar mill terms for the family enviornment that enource a woman's subordinate position in society |
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self regarding |
john stuart mills term for private interests |
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soverign |
acording to bentham, the body in society that is recognized as having authorty to make loaw |
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subjection of women |
written by john stuart mil in defense of woman's equality |
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telelogical theory |
a category of mortal theory derived from the greek telos which means end or aim |
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principle of caprice |
bentham's term for the process of rationaliation of mortal reasoning by holding up that approbation or disapproval as a sufficient reason for itself ant not beliebving it is nnescarry fto dertmine the actions effects |
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utilitaran view |
basically the deterrence view according to benthem this prespective achieves the greatest good for the greatest number |
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ultiariantism |
identified the good with the satisfation of desire and more commonly with pleasure |
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varitables attached to different pleasure |
identiefied by bentham as principles intensity certian or ucnertainity, pripinquity or remoteness fecundity purity and exten |
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villiam blackstone |
leading legal expertn of the 18th century who wrote the commentatories ont he laws of english |