%0 Journal Article
%T Les fonctionnaires dans le Code Constitutionnel
%A Emmanuelle de£¿Champs
%J Revue d¡¯¨¦tudes Benthamiennes
%D 2006
%I Centre Bentham
%R 10.4000/etudes-benthamiennes.59
%X The first volume of Bentham¡¯s Constitutional Code details the organisation of the government and focuses on the duties and rights of functionaries. This article explores the status of functionaries in a utilitarian political system. The greatest happiness principle requires that all their actions be conformable to the interest of the greatest number, which is ensured by a strict official hierarchy and a series of checks. However, functionaries are also individuals whose happiness cannot be neglected. This article uses Bentham¡¯s theory of fictions to explore the relationship between an individual and a class in the utilitarian system. Official functions limit the individual¡¯s ability to serve interests contrary to those of the greatest number, but they are also understood by Bentham as a means to enhance individual happiness.
%U http://etudes-benthamiennes.revues.org/59