CRI300H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Child Prodigy, Prison Reform, Financial Regulation
2 Dec 2018
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Lecture 5: means and ends ii - deterrence. Hated oxford, critiqued its method of power and privilege. Wrote on evidence, constitutional law a scholar and advocate, often wrote on economic issues, financial regulation, prison reform, tax on aristocracy, etc for him, utilitarianism was the foundation of his social critique. Bentham today would say that there"s too many people in prison. Bentham is famous because he thought the idea of natural rights as nonsense says no one has a clear idea on natural rights. Bentham said this was nonsense, says common-law=dog law common law is like the laws we make for our dogs; wait until something bad happens and then punishes you. His teacher, william blackstone, was a famous law professor in oxford. His idea was to collect english law into the commentaries, which were incredibly influential. Bentham was a defender of the codification of law philosophical.
