Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)  

 

Introduction

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Texts in the Collection

Jeremy Bentham, Plan of Parliamentary Reform: in the form of a Catechism, with reasons for each article, with an introduction, shewing the necessity of radical, and the inadequacy of moderate, reform (London: Printed for R. Hunter, successor to Mr. Johnson, 1817).

[facs. PDF]

The HTML version comes from vol. 3 of his Works: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, published under the Superintendence of his Executor, John Bowring (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1838-1843). 11 vols. From vol. 3, pp. 433-552.

  • see the facs PDF of the entire volume 3
  • the facs. PDF of just the "Plan of Parliamentary Reform"

 

Jeremy Bentham, The Book of Fallacies: from unfinished papers of Jeremy Bentham. By a Friend. (London: J. and H. L. Hunt, 1824).

See the facs. PDF.

The HTML version comes from vol. 2 of his Works: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, published under the Superintendence of his Executor, John Bowring (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1838-1843). 11 vols. From vol. 2 pp. 375-487.

  • see the facs PDF of the entire volume 2
  • the facs. PDF of just the "Book of Fallacies".

 

Jeremy Bentham, “Anarchical Fallacies; Being An Examination of the Declarations of Rights Issued During the French Revolution” (c. 1795) in The Works of Jeremy Bentham, published under the Superintendence of his Executor, John Bowring (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1838-1843). 11 vols. Vol. 2 (1843), pp. 489-534. See the facs. PDF of just this work.

It was first published in French in 1840: Jeremy Bentham, Traités des sophismes politiques et des sophismes anarchiques. Extraits des manuscrits de Jérémie Bentham par Ét. Dumont (Bruxelles: Société Belge de Libraire, 1840). “Sophismes anarchiques,” pp. 243-340. See the facs. PDF.