’s utilitarian ethics. Smith realized that Bentham’s position had nothing to do with prudence at all and was a system of thought that …. .Smith successfully decimated Bentham’s attack on virtue ethics and repelled his attempt to undermine the virtue of prudence … err because they have confused and conflated Smith’s virtue ethics conception of self interest with Jeremy Bentham …

of Bentham's jurisprudence, including his radically revised command model of law, his early reflections on justice and …The essays in this volume offer a reassessment of Jeremy Bentham's strikingly original legal philosophy. Early on …, Bentham discovered his “genius for legislation” — “legislation” included not only law making and code writing, but also …