Box 14 contains Bentham's musings on logics, ethics and deontology. These documents should be interesting for anyone wanting to study Bentham's conception of morality.

Detailed contents of this box are as follows: Folios 1 to 9: Introduction, Happiness and Unhappiness, Stations of Jurisprudence in the Map of Knowledge [a. 1800] Folios 10 to 13: Jurisprudence - law terms [before 1800] Folio 14: [Drama] Education - moral compositions [1794] Folios 15 to 18: Morals, moral enities, ethics [1795, 1804] Folio 19: Deontology private - catechism or Jug. true [c. 1800] Folio 20: Morals - definitions [c. 1800] Folio 21 [Deontology], Table of motives [1805] Folios 22 to 34: Entities - real and fictitious [1815] Folios 35 to 43: Logic or deontology, Happiness and unhappiness [1814] Folios 44 to 141: Logic or ethics - theoretical, end of action, pleasure and pain, summum bonum, virtue what [1814] Folios 142 to 153: Deontology II, Practical - of the deontologist or moralist [1814] Folios 154 to 165: Logic or ethics - propriety [1814] Folios 166 to 173: Logic or ethics - theory, fictitious entities [1814] Folios 174 to 179: Logic or ethics - deontology in general [1815] Folios 180 to 185: Deontology - definitions [1815] Folios 186 to 189: Ethics or deontology - deontological ethics [1816] Folios 190 to 195: [Deontology] - Man's interests and duties [1817] Folios 196 to 214: Deontology, Foundation of [1817] Folios 215 to 218: Deontology private - definitions [1819] Folios 219 to 224: Deontology, self-regarding [1819] Folios 225 to 237: Deontology private - rudiments, preface, marginal contents [1819] Folios 238 to 255: Deontology private - II practical [1819] Folios 256 to 268: Deontology private - theoretical [1819] Folios 269 to 273: Deontology private - Plan of a work entituled Morality or Private deontology [1821] Folios 274 to 280: Deontology private - practical part, beginning [1823, 1825] Folios 281 to 287: Deontology private - beginning [1827] Folio 288: Deontology private - effective benevolence [1828] Folios 289 to 296: Leading principles of morality made easy [in French] [1828] Folios 297 to 305: Deontology private - Hume's virtues and J.B.'s intellectual faculties [partly in shorthand] [1828] Folio 306 Deontology private - self-regarding prudence [1828] Folios 307 to 313: Deontology private - beginning [fragments] [1829-31] Folios 314 to 354: Article on Utilitarianism [1829] Folios 355 to 397: Article on Utilitarianism in Westminster Review [1829] Folios 398 to 411: Article on Utilitarianism in W.R. - history [1829] Folios 412 to 453: History of the greatest happiness principle [chiefly Bowring's MSS] [c. 1829-33]

Folios from box 14 which have already been partially or fully transcribed are listed under the progress bar below.

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