Essays on Bentham: Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy.
Hart now devoted himself mainly to the study of Bentham, whom, along with Kelsen, he regarded as the most important legal philosopher of modern times. Ten of his essays were collected in Essays on Bentham (1982). From 1973 to 1978 he was Principal of Brasenose College.
They vindicate Hart's belief in the breadth, originality and philosophical resource-fulness of Bentham's theory of law and its power to stimulate and challenge even today. Of this last quality of Bentham's thought, the book is a prime example. For in many of the essays Hart regards Bentham's thought not as the venerable product.
Show Summary Details Preview. Bentham's Of Laws in General is a remarkable work with a remarkable history. This chapter provides a brief mention of the salient features of the story. Of Laws in General is in fact a continuation of Bentham's best-known work An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.The latter work was printed in 1780 but its publication was held back by.
Hart's essay on Bentham, which does not presume to deal with all the main features of his legal philosophy, shows how Bentham's methodological innovations turned him into both the founder of Utilitarianism and the founder of modern analytical jurisprudence.
This paper hypothesizes that the paradox Hart confesses to in Ch. X of Essays on Bentham was the result of metaethical ambivalence. Hart eclectically yokes together metaethically incompatible.
In his introduction Professor Hart offers both an exposition and a critical assesment of some central issues in jurisprudence and political theory. Essay themes include Bentham's identification of the forms of mistification protecting the law from criticism, his relation to Beccaria and his conversion to democratic radicalism.
In his introduction to these closely linked essays Professor Hart offers both an exposition and a critical assessment of some central issues in jurisprudence and political theory. Some of the essays touch on themes to which little attention has been paid, such as Bentham's identification of the forms of mysitification protecting the law from criticism; his relation to Beccaria.