一、成为一个民主主义者菲利秀·斯科菲尔德(Philip Schofield)的杰作《功利和民主:杰里米·边沁的政治思想》一书的出版是当代边沁研究领域中的一个里程碑式的成就。它对现有的边沁有关政治学的著作进行了唯一的最为全面、广博和合理的研究。在对边沁的政治和民主学说的探究中,斯科菲尔德(Schofield)涉足了一些被充分研究过的领域。边沁的政治改革计划以及他的法律哲学,常常成为边沁的学生和英国传统功利主义的一个主要关注点,从而,斯 THE MAKING OF A DEMOCRACY OF Philip Schofield His book Utilitarianism and Democracy: The Political Thought of Jeremy Bentham is a landmark in contemporary Bentham’s research achievement. It conducted the only comprehensive, extensive and reasonable study of the existing Bentham writings on political science. In his exploration of Bentham’s doctrine of politics and democracy, Schofield was involved in a number of well-studied fields. Bentham’s political reform plan and his legal philosophy often serve as a major concern for Bentham students and British traditional utilitarianism,