An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, burgundy speckled text block, xxxv, 378 pp, 32 pp, no illustrations. VG (corners lightly bumped and overall light shelfwear to boards, age toning as expected with age. Previous owner's name is in ink on ffep. Pages are otherwise clear.). Item #178797
"The first edition of this work was printed in the year 1780; and first published in 1789. The present edition is a careful reprint of 'A New Edition, corrected by the Author,' which was published in 1823." Contents include: 1. Of the principle of utility -- 2. Of principles adverse to that of utility -- 3. Of the four sanction or sources of pain and pleasure -- 4. Value of a lot of pleasure or pain how to be measured -- 5. Pleasures and pains, their kinds -- 6. Of circumstances influencing sensibility -- 7. Of human actions in general -- 8. Of intentionality -- 9. Of consciousness -- 10. Of motives -- 11. Of human disposition in general -- 12. Of the consequences of a mischievous act -- 13. Cases unmeet for punishment -- 14. Of the proportion between punishments and offences -- 15. Of the properties to be given to a lot of punishment -- 16. Division of offences -- 17. Of the limits of the penal branch of jurisprudence.
OCLC: 1298570
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