AN
INTRODUCTION
TO THE
PRINCIPLES
OF
MORALS
AND
LEGISLATION

by
Jeremy Bentham

1781

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Contents

• Preface
•   Chapter    I Of the Principle of Utility.
•   Chapter   II Of Principles Adverse to that of Utility.
•   Chapter  III Of the Four Sanctions or Sources of Pain and Pleasure.
•   Chapter   IV Value of a Lot of Pleasure, How to be Measured.
•   Chapter    V Pleasures and Pains, Their Kinds.
•   Chapter   VI Of Circumstances Influencing Sensibility.
•   Chapter  VII Of Human Actions in General.
•   Chapter VIII Of Intentionality.
•   Chapter   IX Of Consciousness.
• Chapter    X Of Motives.
  •   § 1 Different senses of the word Motive.
  •   § 2 No Motives either constantly good or constantly bad.
  •   § 3 Catalogue of Motives corresponding to that of Pleasures and Pains.
  •   § 4 Order of pre-eminence among Motives.
  •   § 5 Conflict among Motives.
•   Chapter   XI Of Human Dispositions in General.
•   Chapter  XII Of the Consequences of a Mischievous Act.
•   Chapter XIII Of Cases Unmeet for Punishment.
•   Chapter  XIV Of the Proportion Between Punishments and Offences.
•   Chapter   XV Of the Properties to be Given to a Lot of Punishment.
• Chapter  XVI Division of Offences.
  •   § 1 Classes of Offences.
  •   § 2 Divisions and sub-divisions.
  •   § 3 Genera of Class I.
  •   § 4 Advantages of the present method.
  •   § 5 Characters of the five classes.
•   Chapter XVII Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence.

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