An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Jeremy Bentham

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Englisch

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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND LEGISLATION. CHAP. XIIL § I. GENERAL VIEW OF CASES UNMEET FOR PUNISHMENT. The g-eneral object which all laws have, or The end of ought to have, in common, is to augment the augment happiness. total happiness of the community ; and therefore, in the first place, to exclude, as far as may be, every thing that tends to subtract from that hap- piness : in other words, to exclude mischief. II. But all punishment is mischief : all punishment Bat punish- ment is an in itself is evil. Upon the principle of utility, if evil. it ought at all to be admitted, it ought only to be admitted in as far as it promises to exclude some greater evil *. * What follows, relative to the subject of punishment What con- ought regularly to be preceded by a distinct chapter on the '^^"'^ 'H® ends of punishment. But having little to say on that par- veral other ticular branch of the subject, which has not been said before, jiyg to p^. it seemed better, in a work, which will at any rate be but "'shment, _ "" dismissed to too voluminous, to omit this title, reserving it for another, anothey hereafter to be published, intituled The Theory of Punish- '^°^^' VOL. II. B f ASKS UNMEET FOR PUNISHMENT. III. _ "" dismissed to too voluminous, to omit this title, reserving it for another, anothey hereafter to be published, intituled The Theory of Punish- '^°^^' VOL. II. B f ASKS UNMEET FOR PUNISHMENT. III. T^i^i^XIT^ ^* ^'^ plain, therefore, that in the following ZfLTted; ^^^^^ punishment ought not to be inflicted. iiishment. 7nent *. To the same work I must refer the analysis of the several possible modes of punishment, a particular and mi- nute examinat

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