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Punishment analysed.
All punishments
reducible to corporal
punishments
and forfeitures.
Punishment is Pain. If a man feels pain anyat
all where, it must be either in body or in mind. If in
body it can be on no person's account, but his own
If in mind it may be either on his own account
or on that of some one else. If on his own
account it may arise from either of two sources:[of
which the principal ] 1. from the apprehension of
suffering any bodily pain, or 2 from [and the ap consciousness of having lostbeing or
the apprehension of being about to lose any kind
of pleasure. [+] All pl<add>title</add>requires some instrument The means whereby a man is made [+] except that which a
man may feel on account
of another person
except pleasures of
There is no kind of
pleasure but what
may require some
to produce it. To take away the instrument whereby any to lose a pleasure is by taking from him some
pleasure a producible is <add>in such case</add> to take away the pleasure such object as capable of ing him as an instrument
of pleasure. Such effortsinstruments are what commonly
mentioned under the name denomination of his possessions. I
Any punishment which consists in the causing
a man to lose aany possession of any kind may be stiled
a Forfeiture. [+]. A Punishment whereby a man is [+]There are two ways in
which a man may be
made to loseforfeit or the use of an
instrument of pleasure.
made to suffer in his personbody may be stiled a
Corporal Punishment. All punishment then is
either corporal punishment or or Forfeiture. [+] To Ins.p.1
Corporal punishments
are either capital or not
capital.
—
[+] Let us begin with Corporal punishment. Whatever [+]
What whether it be what he
has a mind should happen,
or what he has
a mind should not happen
can happen to a man's bodyperson, whether it be
of a painful nature or of a pleasurable [+] may be as comprehended
under the one or the other of these two
words; to actdo, to suffer. A man may be made or constrained to Corporal punishment
not capital are
either active, or passive
or restrictive.
do what he has a mind not to do: or he may be
made not to do, or restrained from doing what he has a mind to do.
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jeremy bentham |
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caroline vernon |
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