Schofield, Philip (Ed).
(2025)
Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar.
[Book].
The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham.
UCL Press: London, UK.
Preview |
Text
Essays-on-Logic-Ethics-and-Universal-Grammar.pdf - Published Version Download (5MB) | Preview |
Abstract
This new volume of Bentham’s philosophical writings deals with his most fundamental ideas concerning logic, language, ethics, and grammar. It includes four major essays written between 1814 and 1816, namely ‘Essay on Logic’, ‘Essay on Ethics’, ‘Didacologia’, and ‘Universal Grammar’, all of them closely related to Chrestomathia, Bentham’s major work on education. In ‘Essay on Logic’, Bentham contrasts the præcognita of Aristotle with his own ‘characteristics’ of logic and deals with methodization, ontology, and the relationship between logic and language. In ‘Essay on Ethics’, he offers a critique of the Aristotelian virtues and outlines his own division of ethics into prudence, probity, and benevolence. In ‘Didacologia’, he presents an outline of a comprehensive plan for the division of the arts and sciences based on the method of exhaustive bifurcation and a new nomenclature. In ‘Universal Grammar’, Bentham deals with language as the basis for thought and communication and investigates the nature of the different parts of speech. The volume is completed with an Appendix containing fragmentary material, written in August and September 1813, with a focus on language. All the texts are based on Bentham’s original manuscripts and have never before been published in authentic form.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800089211 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800089211 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800089211 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editor, 2025 Text © The Bentham Committee, 2025 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Schofield, P. (ed.) 2025. Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800089211 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available athttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | UCL, philosophy, history, law, Jeremy Bentham, grammar, ethics, ontology, logic, Aristotle, communication, thought, methodization, language, parts of speech, arts and sciences, disciplines, happiness, pleasure and pain, utilitarianism, well-being, paraphrasis, fictitious entities, real entities |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws > The Bentham Project |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10217088 |
Archive Staff Only
 |
View Item |
