...constituting as it were its members," he wrote in his Introduction to Principles of Morals and Legislation. " The interest of the community then, is what? — the...interests of the several members who compose it." " He was an enthusiastic botanist, and his mania for classifying and codifying may owe something to...

...community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community...interests of the several members who compose it." It was Bentham's idea ths>t pleasures and pains were necessarily and solely to be considered as quantities,...

...community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting phets, we even build sepulchres to them. It is true...death; and the amount of penal infliction which modern 5. It is in vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest...

...community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community...interests of the several members who compose it." Much later, Mill ( 1962 [ 1 875], 573) stated confidently that "The laws of the phenomena of society...

...und sein Interesse oder das Wohl der Gemeinschaft ist nur eine Funktion der individuellen Interessen: »The interest of the community then is, what? - the...interests of the several members who compose it.« (Bentham [1781, 1988: 3], vgl. Mill [1861, 1985: 33]) Und aus diesem Grunde kann der Sozialreformer...

...the 'fictitious' and 'as it were'. This is not an image that Bentham wishes to endorse in any way. The interest of the community then is, what? — the...the interests of the several members who compose it ... Individual interests are the only real interests. ' When Mrs Thatcher announced that 'There is...

...community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting, as it were, its members. The interest of the community,...of the interests of the several members who compose it.1 At the opposite pole, various writers, in varying degrees, regard the whole as some kind of fusion...

...community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community...of the interests of the several members who compose it."23 Arendt can hardly support such a position. Like the communitarians, and like much of the tradition...

...meaning of it is often lost. When it has a meaning, it is this. . . . The interest of the community is the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it. 5. It is in vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest...

...convergent individual interests. Jeremy Bentham, for example, famously argues: The interest of the community is, what? — the sum of the interests of the several...understanding what is the interest of the individual.' In this view, social policies can be worked out by individuals through negotiations or other mutual...