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30 Aug 1814 §3

Logic or Deontology Ch Well being

1 §3 Well being fundaments

||3 Quantity of well being in human life, its preponderance over
S. 3 Well-being and of that of Ill-being. — their comparative quantity
in the human species in mankind human life world.

In the Taking the whole of mankind together
on which side of the account does the ballance lie? on the
well-being, or on the ill-being side?

If religion were out of the question, the answer would
require some a moments thought:— on the side of well-being
beyond dispute: of well-being, existence is of itself a conclusive
proof. So little small is the quantity of pain necessarily
accompanying the termination of existence.

But [under the guidance of religion] men have made to
themselves one almighty being, whose delight is in human misery:
and who to prevent mens a man's escaping from the whatsoever
misery he may be threatened with in the present life,
has without having den its firm a determination
in escape case of the event of any such escape, to plunge him into
infinitely greater misery in a life to come

Even taking the Christian religion for true, this
notion is a most vain and groundless conceit. For the
Christian scripture is his open to every eye: and in no
one part of it is any intimation given of any such
doom.

By no precept has Jesus been represented as forbidding
suicide.

By his own example he is represented as approving
of it. Possessed not merely of the highest now of superhuman
power, Jesus having power, though it was for ever, to exempt
himself from death, Jesus purposely and spontaneously subjected
himself to it. What this did, it was for all men,
1.1

1.1 to promote the
well being of all men
that he did it. Will
this be said? What he
thought right that by one
(person it should be done by
all men, how could he think
it otherwise than right, that by every each person it should, upon occasion, be done for himself

Identifier: | JB/014/038/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1814-08-30	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	038	Info in main headings field	logic or deontology
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] mj&l 1811]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	colonel aaron burr
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1811
Notes public		ID Number	4801
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