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Morals 23 May 179

Title — Art of pleasing —

Objections —
1. Betrays pretension
2. Gives suggest an idea
of habits of falsehood

A man who was
known to profess the
art of pleasing every
body would please
nobody.

Principles of politeness

Objections.
1. Politeness carries
an idea of restraint
2. Indicates pretension
of superiority
3. Seems to include
the inferior classes —
not to be practicable
among by individuals belonging to them — that
is among the bulk
of mankind

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Art of pleasing
including the art
of avoiding to displease

Importance of the
Art

Dignity of the Art

It is the art of
of communicating occasion contributing
happiness and avoiding
to give
occasion to unhappiness
on the part
of others

Inducements to practice
it
1— on the score of
benevolence
2— on the score of
personal interest

Its relation to the
higher morals

Inferior in point
of importance to
the higher duties
in respect of the
quantity of happiness
that may be
at stake at a time
at a given time —
superior in respect
of the frequency of
the occasions that
may call it into
exercise.

Connection between
the art of pleasing
and Christian Charity

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Art of avoiding
to displease

Occasion for
conversation exercising it —

Opinion — conversation
in relation
to matters
of opinion

Avoid defending
expressing uttering much
less more defending opinions
displeasing
to the company
— to him or them with whom
you converse

Exception
— where there is a
considerable probability
of making a
convert, at the same
time that the conversion
promises
to be an event beneficial
to society

Discussion may
be freer tete a tete
than in the presence
of third persons:
because in the latter
case, pride is more
wounded by superiority.

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Topics of objection

1. Importance of
truth — interests of
truth superior to all
other considerations

2. — Meanness Servility of
giving up an opinion
i:e: surrendering
the interests
of truth in the case
of a superior in
point of office,
fortune, or rank

Answers —

Importance of truth
nonsense — truth as
truth is of no importance
at all

Proportions may be
great importance
in as far as sublimity
is importance
and yet it may be
a matter of no importance
at all whether
a man believes
in them or no

Origin (intellectual) of the error
— confounding truth
with veracity

Origin (moral) of
the error as misconduct —

Pride — intolerance —
(a modification of
the principle of unutting)

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An opinion
opposite to my own
is as far as it
goes an evidence
of my being in the
wrong — of an inferiority
on my part
in point of understanding
— & in point
of power of persuasion

Accordingly the
more abject the
character situation of the opponent
the less the
opposition hurts
me.

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Date_1	1795-05-23	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	015	Info in main headings field	morals
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