Bentham and Blackstone: A Lifetime's Dialectic
@article{Burns1989BenthamAB,
title={Bentham and Blackstone: A Lifetime's Dialectic},
author={James Burns},
journal={Utilitas},
year={1989},
volume={1},
pages={22 - 40},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144397742}
}The full range of Bentham's engagement with Blackstone's view of law is beyond the scope of a single article. Yet it is important to recognize at the outset, even in a more restricted enquiry into the matter, that the engagement, begun when Bentham, not quite sixteen years of age, started to attend Blackstone's Oxford lectures (from which the Commentaries on the Laws of England emerged in the first edition of 1765–9), was indeed a lifelong affair. Whatever Bentham had in mind when, at the age…
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