The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: On the Liberty of the Press, and Public Discussion, and other Legal and Political Writings for Spain and Portugal

Bentham, Jeremy; Pease-Watkin, Catherine; Schofield, Philip

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“…Para ahondar en las condiciones materiales, ideológicas y de financiación de la prensa, Fuentes, 1994;gil novales, 1980, pp. 76-81;Morange, 1986;Morán, 1996;Martínez de las Heras, 2000, 2000a, 2000bLarriba, 2020;Martínez Martín, 2020;y sánchez Martín, 2020. 56 De acuerdo con el «índice» elaborado por gil novales (1975, vol. ii, pp.…”

Section: Mora En La Primera Fase Del Trieniounclassified

La obra periodística de José Joaquín de Mora y el liberalismo económico en el sexenio absolutista y el Trienio Liberal

Astigarraga,

Usoz Otal,

Zabalza

2024

Hist. contemp.

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El literato y periodista José Joaquín de Mora fue uno de los grandes divulgadores en castellano de la economía política en la primera mitad del siglo XIX. Aunque diversas facetas de su labor resultan ya conocidas, este no es el caso de su obra periodística sobre economía política publicada durante el sexenio absolutista (1814-1820) y el Trienio Liberal (1820-823). En este trabajo se realiza una reconstrucción íntegra de esa labor a lo largo de ese período, cuando Mora pasó de subsistir en los intersticios del absolutismo fernandino, sin ser parte de él, a participar en el liberalismo radical del Trienio. Su interés por la economía política, que se hizo expreso en la mayoría de las iniciativas periodísticas en las que estuvo implicado, pone de relieve que fue firme seguidor de los principios de la economía clásica —el librecambio incluido—, resaltando su deuda intelectual con dos grandes nombres: Say y Bentham.

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Section: Mora En La Primera Fase Del Trieniounclassified

La obra periodística de José Joaquín de Mora y el liberalismo económico en el sexenio absolutista y el Trienio Liberal

Astigarraga,

Usoz Otal,

Zabalza

2024

Hist. contemp.

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“…Instead, the extent to which political offices already privileged the individuals who held them was enough to help them counter such false accusations, assuming truth was on their side. Whether the accusations against such people were false, they already had disproportionate material and social means to defend themselves, “much beyond any, which can be within the reach of an individual not so situated” (Bentham 2012, 13). Unless a person’s accusation against the character and behavior of a political leader was “false,” “groundless,” and the “result of willful mendacity, accompanied with the consciousness of its falsity, or else with culpable rashness,” the accuser should not have been punished (Bentham 2012, 12).…”

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“Secrecy or Silence with Her Finger on Her Mouth”: Jeremy Bentham’s Other Model of Visibility and Power

Collins

2021

Political Theory

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To challenge the Foucauldian legacy of Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon prison, scholars often highlight Bentham’s later writings on the democratic power of public opinion. In doing so, they reaffirm Bentham’s reputation as a unreserved proponent of transparency. To recover the limits of Bentham’s embrace of publicity, I examine the model of visibility exemplified by his designs for the Sotimion, a residence for unmarried, pregnant women. The Sotimion draws our attention to Bentham’s appreciation for concealment as a method of preventing individual and social harms caused by publicity and his criticisms of ascetic sexual norms. By being able to see visitors without being seen by them, the residents of the Sotimion would have avoided social censure while continuing to meet with friends, family, and even lovers. The Sotimion designs eschewed the panoptic principle, the use of asymmetric surveillance to reform moral behavior, and offered what I call the “soteric principle,” the use of asymmetric surveillance to protect the observer from punishment. By comparing the Sotimion to the Magdalen Hospital for Penitent Prostitutes and Bentham’s discussions of panoptic institutions for women, I examine the Sotimion’s distinctiveness while acknowledging its normalizing effects for residents from lower socioeconomic classes. Just as the panopticon captured Bentham’s commitment to publicity, applying the soteric model to Bentham’s theory of public opinion highlights his commitment to secrecy for protecting critics of government abuses from retribution.

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“…5 The fact that Mill believes press freedom has been completely vindicated intellectually (if not always institutionally) is mirrored in the title of his chapter. Where Jeremy Bentham, founder of the Utilitarian tradition of free speech, had argued for 'liberty of the press, and public discussion, 6 Mill demands 'liberty of thought and discussion'.…”

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Speech, truth and liberty: Bentham to John Stuart Mill 1

Niesen

2019

JBS

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Bentham’s Utilitarianism transforms earlier free speech doctrine in the service of the pursuit of truth and the control of government, preserving the distinction between statements of opinion and of fact and awarding the latter a lesser degree of protection. The work of James Mill and the early writings of John Stuart Mill retain this distinction, but their accounts are weighed down by the problems of a direct Utilitarian approach, in their consequentialist balancing of different values against each other, and in their dependence on a majoritarian epistemology and their commitment to a naive progressive optimism. Mill goes on in On Liberty to address and resolve these problems on the basis of a new justification for free speech as free deliberative thought. I argue that, contrary to most interpretations, his new justification leaves untouched the basic distinction between absolutely protected expressions of opinion and only functionally and contingently protected assertions of fact, leaving room for restrictions on factual statements, especially when untrue.

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The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: On the Liberty of the Press, and Public Discussion, and other Legal and Political Writings for Spain and Portugal

Cited by 9 publications

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La obra periodística de José Joaquín de Mora y el liberalismo económico en el sexenio absolutista y el Trienio Liberal

La obra periodística de José Joaquín de Mora y el liberalismo económico en el sexenio absolutista y el Trienio Liberal

“Secrecy or Silence with Her Finger on Her Mouth”: Jeremy Bentham’s Other Model of Visibility and Power

Speech, truth and liberty: Bentham to John Stuart Mill 1

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