著者
高島 和哉
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.37, pp.61-76, 2014-03-20 (Released:2018-03-30)
参考文献数
12

It is well known that Bentham outlined his theory of private ethics in An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation(1789)and developed it in a more detailed way in a later work titled Deontology. However, both questions -----ʻWhy did he address the problem of private ethics again in the early 1810s?ʼ and ʻWhat brought about some conspicuous differences between the moral theory expounded in An Introduction and that expounded in Deontology?ʼ -----have so far received insufficient attention. This paper is an attempt to answer these questions by clarifying the impact of Benthamʼs discovery of ʻsinister interestʼ and ʻdelusionʼ on his theory of private ethics. It concludes that both Deontology and A Table of the Springs of Action are the works in which his developed theory of private ethics are embodied.
著者
高島 和哉
出版者
日本イギリス哲学会
雑誌
イギリス哲学研究 (ISSN:03877450)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.30, pp.49-64, 2007-03-20 (Released:2018-03-30)

So far most Bentham scholars have failed to pay enough attention to the fact that Bentham tried to address the problem of methodology of sciences in his Logic,of which the theory of language constituted a sort of philosophical foundation. In consequence, the most distinctive feature of his methodology of sciences has not been brought to light sufficiently. This paper, thus, is an attempt to clarify this feature, which I call ‘the reorganization of the structure of reality through inventing new ideas’, by examining his Logic. In that process, I challenge the received view that attributes both foundationalist and reductionistic theory of knowledge to Bentham. In contrast, it is argued that his theory of knowledge upon which his methodology of sciences rests is radically pragmatic.