Index to Posts

40. Boobquakes and other matters of sex : Religion tells us all we need to know, and more.

39. Online Texts, Benthamism, Chartism : Online resurces. Chartism.

38. Bentham, Fou-cault, and 1792 : Bentham v Foucault

37. Len Hume : Australian author of Bentham and Bureaucracy.

36. Bentham in Columbia : link to a blog post by lureamicorum

35. Novelists : Novelists discussing utilitarianism.

34. Female utilitarian authors : Female authors discussing utilitarianism.

33. Albert Venn Dicey : Dicey and Benthamism.

32. Word cloud : a neat summary of a thesis.

31. Chartism and Australia : implementation in Australia of the points of the Charter of 1838.

30. Rights and utility in Australia : Rights in Australia. Utility in disguise?

29. Rights are Indivisible! : UN High Commissioner for Human Rights tells it like it is.

28. Constitutional Happiness : happiness in constitutional theory and in society since ancient Greece.

27. HS Chapman and the secret ballot : Chapman and the implementation of the secret ballot in Australia.

26. Bryce and Dicey : Bentham in letters between AV Dicey and James Bryce.

25. Charles Buller : Charles Buller and responsible government in Australia.

24. The Screw? : Disraeli invites Robert Lowe to write a paper on ‘The application of the Screw’.

23. The delights of legislation : Before Bentham legislation could be a nightmare of uncertainty.

22. Benthamiana : excerpts from Bentham’s works, and articles about Bentham.

21. ‘The Young Duke’ by Benjamin Disraeli, and codification :  Disraeli lampoons the utilitarians.

20. Bentham and the Codifiers : Bentham and liberty.

19. An Amoral Philosopher – E. T. Laing : Happiness even if we are robots?

18. Kevin Rudd, Terry Moran, Glyn Davis and Bentham Terry Moran says it is all about Bentham.

17. Omaha – video history : A clever piece of video history-telling.

16. Australia, fluid society : Surveys of sons and fathers show Australia to be a more fluid society than USA.

15. Bentham, Marx and Hitler! : Bentham was influenced by Télémaque by Fénelon. What influence did Bentham have on Marx and Hitler?

14. Bentham on South Australia : Bentham and Wakefield’s systematic colonisation.

13. Telemachus and Aeneas – ships passing : Aeneas in Henry Handel Richardson’s Australia Felix.

12. Place, Mill and Bentham at Work : The first floor room at Ford Abbey where Bentham, Mill and Place worked.

11. Utilitarian Policy : Club Troppo on utilitarian policy in action, posted by Paul Frijters.

10. Telemachus : An introduction to Fénelon’s Telemachus (or Télémaque).

9. Reconnection with Britain : The strange disjunction between English political theory and Australian history-telling.

8. Westgate Bridge / Westgate Hotel : The Westgate Bridge, the Westgate Hotel, and physical-force Chartism.

7. Don Dunstan gets it right (nearly) : South Australia in Don Dunstan’s autobiography, Felicia .

6. Bentham in Australia? I’ve never heard of him… : An overview of the influence of Benthamism in Australia.

5. Carthage Felix? I don’t think so. : A quote from Henry Handel Richardson’s Australia Felix compared with the Aeneid.

4. Len Hume : Len Hume, Australian historian, and his interest in Bentham and bureaucracy

3. Wakefield, economics and colonies : Wakefield and land policy in Australia .

2. Bentham in Columbia : Link to a blog post by lureamicorum discussing the influence of JB in Columbia.

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