A Bentham Hypertext

Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Short Table of Contents

This table of contents is mostly abbreviated from the more replete one, and corresponds to the way I have divided up the text into web pages.

In the hopes of shortening the download time, where Bentham divided chapters into sections I have done so as well. For the same reason, I have divided Chapter 11 into parts, tho' Bentham had not done so, and have done the like for sections two and three of Chapter 16.

Contents

• Preface
• Chapter I Of the Principle of Utility.
• Chapter II Of Principles Adverse to that of Utility.
• Chapter III Of the Four Sanctions or Sources of Pain and Pleasure
• Chapter IV Value of a Lot of Pleasure, How to be Measured.
• Chapter V Pleasures and Pains, Their Kinds
• Chapter VI Of Circumstances Influencing Sensibility
• Chapter VII Of Human Actions in General
• Chapter VIII Of Intentionality
• Chapter IX Of Consciousness
• Chapter X, Of Motives
  • §1 Different senses of the word Motive.
  • §2 No Motives either constantly good or constantly bad.
  • §3 Catalogue of Motives corresponding to that of Pleasures nad Pains.
  • §4 Order of pre-eminence among Motives
  • §5 Conflict among Motives
• Chapter XI, Of Human Dispositions in General
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• Chapter XII, Of the Consequences of a Mischievous Act
  • §1 Shape in which the mischief of an Act may show itself.
  • §2 How intentionality, &c. may influence the mischief of an Act.
• Chapter XIII, Of Cases Unmeet for Punishment
  • §1 General view of cases unmeet for Punishment.
  • §2 Cases in which Punishment is groundless.
  • §3 Cases in which Punishment must be inefficacious.
  • §4 Cases where Punishment is unprofitable
  • §5 Cases where Punishment is needless
• Chapter XIV Of the Proportion Between Punishments and Offences
• Chapter XV Of the Properties to be Given to a Lot of Punishment
• Chapter XVI, Division of Offences
  • §1 Classes of Offences.
  • §2 Divisions and sub-divisions.
    • Part 1 Offences against the person, semi-public offences, and self-regarding offences
    • Part 2 Public offences
    • Part 3 Offenses by falsehood
    • Part 4 Nature of trusts
    • Part 5 Offences against trust
  • §3 Genera of Class I.
    • Part 1 Offences against person, property, or reputation
    • Part 2 Offences against condition: master/servant
    • Part 3 Offences against condition: guardian/ward
    • Part 4 Offences against condition: parent/child
    • Part 5 Offences against condition: husband/wife
    • Part 6 Civil conditions
  • §4 Advantages of the present method.
  • §5 Characters of the five classes
• Chapter XVII, Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence.
  • §1 Limits between Private Ethics and the Art of Legislation.
  • §2 Jurisprudence, its branches.