The Book of Fallacies
Series: The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 March 2015
- ISBN 9780198719816
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages640 pages
- Size 236x162x40 mm
- Weight 1080 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Jeremy Bentham identifies and criticizes around fifty fallacious arguments used by politicians to thwart measures of reform, and exposes the sinister interests that lead to their employment. This edition restores Bentham's original structure and previously-omitted sections, and remains as relevant to political debate today as it was in his time.
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The present edition of The Book of Fallacies is the first that follows Bentham's own structure for the work, and includes a great deal of material, both in terms of the fallacies themselves and the illustrative matter, that previous versions of the work have omitted. The fallacies that concerned Bentham were not logical errors of the sort identified by Aristotle, or commonplace misunderstandings of matters of fact, but arguments deployed in political debate, in particular in the British Parliament, in order to prevent reform.
Bentham not only identified, described, and criticized the fallacious arguments in question, which were all characterized by their irrelevancy, but explained the sinister interests that led politicians to employ them and their supporters to accept them. By exposing these political fallacies, Bentham hoped to prevent their employment in future, and thereby to place political debate on its only proper ground, namely considerations drawn from the principle of utility.
Table of Contents:
Editorial Introduction
The Book of Fallacies
Book I: Fallacies of the Ins
Fallacies Applying to Men's Fears
Fallacies Applying to Men's Self-Diffidence
Fallacies Applying to Men's Self-Diffidence (continued): Anti-Rational Fallacies
Fallacies Applying to Men's Superstitions
Fallacies Applying to Men's Indolence and Indifference
Fallacies Applying to Men's Antipathies
BOOK II: Eitherside Fallacies
Fallacies Applying to Men's Sympathies
Fallacies Applying to the Judicial Faculty
Book III: Fallacies of the Outs
Fallacies Applying to Men's Jealousies and Envyings
Appendices
Indexes
