Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-7cvxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T12:03:54.092Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Halévy's Bentham Is Bentham

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2001

Philippe Mongin  and
Nathalie Sigot
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

A reply to Fransisco Vergara's attack on Halévy's interpretation of Bentham in Philosophy, January, 1998. Vergara had argued that Halévy was mistaken in interpreting Bentham's principle of utility as a psychological law as well as the ethical greatest happiness principle. Mongin and Sigot show that Halévy correctly interpreted Bentham's texts and that the psychological law is necessary to Bentham's legal theory, economics and politics; they also argue that it is incorrect to confuse the principle of utility with a theory of universal selfishness, and that this misunderstanding underlies Vergara's mistaken picture of both Halévy and Bentham.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Philosophy , Volume 74 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 271 - 281
Copyright
© The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1999

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)