Frederick Rosen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3832336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederick Rosen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederick |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosen |
| SIGNATURE | ROSEN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
‘it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings’ Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations on Representative Government', and 'The Subjection of Women' examine the most central issues that face liberal democratic regimes - whether in the nineteenth century or the twenty-first. They have formed the basis for many of the political institutions of the West since the l…
Epicureanism and Utilitarianism
I am grateful to Professor Lyons for his comments on several aspects of Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill and to the Review Editor of Utilitas for inviting me to reply. I hope that Professor Lyons will not object to my first pointing out to the reader that the book consists mainly of a series of substantial chapters on philosophers who have not always been regarded as utilitarian thinkers, such as Hume, Smith (three chapters) and Helvéti…
J.S. Mill on Socrates, Pericles and the Fragility of truth
Utility and Justice
This article explores the relationship between utility and justice in the ancient Epicurean tradition, and as it developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries following the revival of Epicureanism in the writings of Pierre Gassendi. It focuses on the significance of various allusions to a line from Horace, ‘utilitas, justi prope mater et aequi’ (utility, the mother of justice and equity), which appeared in writings of Hugo Grotius, David …
Individual Sacrifice and the Greatest Happiness
This article considers Bentham's response to the criticism of utilitarianism that it allows for and may even require the sacrifice of some members of society in order to increase overall happiness. It begins with the contrast between the principle of utility and the contrasting principle of sympathy and antipathy to show that Bentham regarded the main achievement of his principle as overcoming the subjectivity he found in all other philosophical …
Utilitarianism and the Punishment of the Innocent
This paper examines the commonplace assertion that utilitarianism allows for and even, at times, requires the punishment of the innocent. It traces the origins of this doctrine to the writings of the British Idealists and the subsequent development of what is called the post-utilitarian paradigm which posits various justifications for punishment such as retribution, deterrence and reform, finds all of them inadequate, and then, with the addition …
Nationalism and early British liberal thought
This study in British political thought explores the mainly negative reaction to Greek nationalism in the 1820s by the first generation to refer to itself as liberal in the modern ideological sense. It challenges Elie Kedourie's explanation for the hostility to modern nationalism in Britain in terms of a Whig theory of nationality. It also criticizes the recent work of David Miller for misreading the context of J. S. Mill's apparent acceptance of…
The Bentham Edition
Nearly a third of the 65-volume edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham has now been completed. How has it changed our understanding of Bentham's thought and his contribution to contemporary political theory
Socratic Studies
Bentham, Byron, and Greece
This book explores the connection between Jeremy Bentham and Lord Byron forged by the Greek struggle for independence. It focuses on the activities of the London Greek Committee, supposedly founded by disciples of Bentham, which mounted the expedition on which Lord Byron ultimately met his death in Greece. This study provides a new assessment of British philhellenism, and examines the relationship between Bentham's theory of constitutional govern…
Lives, Liberties and the Public Good
Jeremy Bentham and Representative Democracy
Jeremy Bentham
The day for the commencement of this code [in England] with the stamp of authority on the first page of it, is the day which will give commencement to the hundred and first year, reckoning from the day on which the author will have breathed his last. In the meantime, to those who have the faculty of extracting amusement from dry matter, it may serve as a second Utopia, adapted to the circumstances of the age. 1
Contemplation and Virtue in Plato
This paper has been prompted by the conviction that a number of ethical and political doctrines in Plato remain obscure and somewhat unintelligible unless related to the contemplative experience of the Platonic philosopher. 1 I shall concentrate here on one such doctrine, the distinction between philosophic and popular virtue, especially as it appears in the Phaedo and the Gorgias . But in order first to clarify our conception of the relationship…
The Political Context of Aristotle's Categories of Justice
A ristotle's account of justice in Book V of the Nicomachean Ethics has provided the starting point and basic categories for subsequent discussion to the present day.' In spite of the importance of Aristotle's discussion, it has remained in the background, and while at the foundation of contemporary work, it has ceased to provide a fundamental alternative as a theory of justice. One reason may be that in the contemporary use of Aristotle's catego…
The British Library of Political and Economic Science
Obligation and Friendship in Plato's Crito
The Principle of Population as Political Theory
Piety and Justice
Piety is not a theme that normally attracts the modern mind. In our own age rebellion has a more prominent position and the theme of impiety strikes a more sympathetic note. We are led to examine Plato's Euthyphro as much for the hints we find on the subject of impiety as for whatever it might contain on the seemingly drab subject of the holy. The Euthyphro is also a dialogue concerned with justice, a recurrent theme in the Platonic corpus, and i…
The Political Context of Aristotle's Categories of Justice
A ristotle's account of justice in Book V of the Nicomachean Ethics has provided the starting point and basic categories for subsequent discussion to the present day.' In spite of the importance of Aristotle's discussion, it has remained in the background, and while at the foundation of contemporary work, it has ceased to provide a fundamental alternative as a theory of justice. One reason may be that in the contemporary use of Aristotle's catego…
The Principle of Population as Political Theory
Individual Sacrifice and the Greatest Happiness
This article considers Bentham's response to the criticism of utilitarianism that it allows for and may even require the sacrifice of some members of society in order to increase overall happiness. It begins with the contrast between the principle of utility and the contrasting principle of sympathy and antipathy to show that Bentham regarded the main achievement of his principle as overcoming the subjectivity he found in all other philosophical …
Utilitarianism and the Punishment of the Innocent
This paper examines the commonplace assertion that utilitarianism allows for and even, at times, requires the punishment of the innocent. It traces the origins of this doctrine to the writings of the British Idealists and the subsequent development of what is called the post-utilitarian paradigm which posits various justifications for punishment such as retribution, deterrence and reform, finds all of them inadequate, and then, with the addition …
Epicureanism and Utilitarianism
I am grateful to Professor Lyons for his comments on several aspects of Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill and to the Review Editor of Utilitas for inviting me to reply. I hope that Professor Lyons will not object to my first pointing out to the reader that the book consists mainly of a series of substantial chapters on philosophers who have not always been regarded as utilitarian thinkers, such as Hume, Smith (three chapters) and Helvéti…
Obligation and Friendship in Plato's Crito
Piety and Justice
Piety is not a theme that normally attracts the modern mind. In our own age rebellion has a more prominent position and the theme of impiety strikes a more sympathetic note. We are led to examine Plato's Euthyphro as much for the hints we find on the subject of impiety as for whatever it might contain on the seemingly drab subject of the holy. The Euthyphro is also a dialogue concerned with justice, a recurrent theme in the Platonic corpus, and i…
The Principle of Population as Political Theory
The British Library of Political and Economic Science
Obligation and Friendship in Plato's Crito
The Political Context of Aristotle's Categories of Justice
A ristotle's account of justice in Book V of the Nicomachean Ethics has provided the starting point and basic categories for subsequent discussion to the present day.' In spite of the importance of Aristotle's discussion, it has remained in the background, and while at the foundation of contemporary work, it has ceased to provide a fundamental alternative as a theory of justice. One reason may be that in the contemporary use of Aristotle's catego…
Contemplation and Virtue in Plato
This paper has been prompted by the conviction that a number of ethical and political doctrines in Plato remain obscure and somewhat unintelligible unless related to the contemplative experience of the Platonic philosopher. 1 I shall concentrate here on one such doctrine, the distinction between philosophic and popular virtue, especially as it appears in the Phaedo and the Gorgias . But in order first to clarify our conception of the relationship…
Jeremy Bentham
The day for the commencement of this code [in England] with the stamp of authority on the first page of it, is the day which will give commencement to the hundred and first year, reckoning from the day on which the author will have breathed his last. In the meantime, to those who have the faculty of extracting amusement from dry matter, it may serve as a second Utopia, adapted to the circumstances of the age. 1
Jeremy Bentham and Representative Democracy
Lives, Liberties and the Public Good
Bentham, Byron, and Greece
This book explores the connection between Jeremy Bentham and Lord Byron forged by the Greek struggle for independence. It focuses on the activities of the London Greek Committee, supposedly founded by disciples of Bentham, which mounted the expedition on which Lord Byron ultimately met his death in Greece. This study provides a new assessment of British philhellenism, and examines the relationship between Bentham's theory of constitutional govern…
Socratic Studies
The Bentham Edition
Nearly a third of the 65-volume edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham has now been completed. How has it changed our understanding of Bentham's thought and his contribution to contemporary political theory
Utilitarianism and the Punishment of the Innocent
This paper examines the commonplace assertion that utilitarianism allows for and even, at times, requires the punishment of the innocent. It traces the origins of this doctrine to the writings of the British Idealists and the subsequent development of what is called the post-utilitarian paradigm which posits various justifications for punishment such as retribution, deterrence and reform, finds all of them inadequate, and then, with the addition …
Nationalism and early British liberal thought
This study in British political thought explores the mainly negative reaction to Greek nationalism in the 1820s by the first generation to refer to itself as liberal in the modern ideological sense. It challenges Elie Kedourie's explanation for the hostility to modern nationalism in Britain in terms of a Whig theory of nationality. It also criticizes the recent work of David Miller for misreading the context of J. S. Mill's apparent acceptance of…
Individual Sacrifice and the Greatest Happiness
This article considers Bentham's response to the criticism of utilitarianism that it allows for and may even require the sacrifice of some members of society in order to increase overall happiness. It begins with the contrast between the principle of utility and the contrasting principle of sympathy and antipathy to show that Bentham regarded the main achievement of his principle as overcoming the subjectivity he found in all other philosophical …
Utility and Justice
This article explores the relationship between utility and justice in the ancient Epicurean tradition, and as it developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries following the revival of Epicureanism in the writings of Pierre Gassendi. It focuses on the significance of various allusions to a line from Horace, ‘utilitas, justi prope mater et aequi’ (utility, the mother of justice and equity), which appeared in writings of Hugo Grotius, David …
J.S. Mill on Socrates, Pericles and the Fragility of truth
Epicureanism and Utilitarianism
I am grateful to Professor Lyons for his comments on several aspects of Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill and to the Review Editor of Utilitas for inviting me to reply. I hope that Professor Lyons will not object to my first pointing out to the reader that the book consists mainly of a series of substantial chapters on philosophers who have not always been regarded as utilitarian thinkers, such as Hume, Smith (three chapters) and Helvéti…
On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
‘it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings’ Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations on Representative Government', and 'The Subjection of Women' examine the most central issues that face liberal democratic regimes - whether in the nineteenth century or the twenty-first. They have formed the basis for many of the political institutions of the West since the l…
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