The Greatest Happiness Principle in Morals and Government, Explained.

Publication date: 1829

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Third edition. Part I. A Radical Defense of Bentham's Utilitarianism: Illustrated 1829 Pamphlet on the "Greatest Happiness" Debate Thompson, Thomas Perronet, [1783-1869]. Cruikshank, George, [1792-1878], Illustrator. The Greatest Happiness Principle in Morals and Government, Explained and Defended. In Answer to the Edinburgh Review. Re-published from the Westminster Review, No. XXI; on the 1st Aug. 1829. London: Sold by Robert Heward, at the Office of the Westminster Review, 1829. Third edition. 16 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/4"; 22.2 x 13.3cm). Later plain wraps, the original tract laid in, the title and last leaf dusty. Contemporary ink inscription "Greatest Happiness" to front wrap. Woodcut vignette on title page by George Cruikshank. Bookseller's ticket "Tho. M. Shiells/ Edinburgh" to title page. Pages 3 to 14 detached. Internally clean. $100. * Features the prominent bookseller ticket on the title page of Thomas Miller Shiells (1799-1838) of Edinburgh, the notable Scottish law librarian, bibliographer, bookseller, and stationer. Shiells is best remembered as the compiler of the monumental, multi-volume Catalogue of the Library of the Society of Writers to the Signet (Edinburgh, 1833-1837). The first part of the defense of the central principle of Bentham's utilitarianism, the idea that laws and actions should always aim to bring the greatest amount of happiness to the greatest number of people, by British radical reformer Thomas Perronet Thompson, "[e]ach debater proved himself brilliant in the. style of the period", responding to contributions by James Mill and T.B. Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review. This pamphlet was part of a famous, fiery debate between two major magazines of the 1800s: the Westminster Review (which supported these radical new ideas) and the Edinburgh Review (which was highly critical of them). Cohn 364; not in Chuo University Bentham Collection.…

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Title
The Greatest Happiness Principle in Morals and Government, Explained.
Author
Thompson, T. Perronet; Mill, John Stuart
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1829
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Soft cover
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Third edition. Part I.
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