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7 Sept 1814

Logic or Ethics Ch Object

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7. To say of any act — from this, no pleasure, or no
preponderant mass of pleasure, were the act exercised by me
or by this or that other person or number of persons, would
be reaped by me or by them respectively, therefore, although
from the correspondent like act, if exercised by you,
pure or preponderant pleasure would be reaped by you, the
act is not fit or not proper to be exercised by you,
is folly: and, if followed up by acts having for their
object the rendering applying evil in any shape to you, injury injustice
and in so far as political public power or influence is
employed in their design to that end, tyranny.

8 Abstraction made of future contingent consequences, viz. of
consequences which with reference to the point of time
in question, are as yet but future contingent, the mere bare fact of
a person's contin having down to that time continued in
the free as well as habitual exercise of any act (free, i.e. viz without
or over and above independently of any disposition thereunto produced
by the influence on them of pain or pleasure in the shape of punishment or reward expected
from any foreign source) is of itself conclusive proof, that
the act is with relation to him productive either of
pure or of preponderant good, and as such fit and proper
to be exercised by him.

9. In relation to any act which abstraction made
of future conting contingent consequences is thus (as per par. 8.)
fit and proper to be exercised by a man person, to warrant any
other person in passing condemnation on its pronouncing it to be in any way an
evil one, it is incumbent on such censurer censor not only
to shew and render it preponderantly probable — not only
that in this or that determinate shape evil will be the result
of it, but that the sum of that evil will at the end of the action be preponderant over the sum of the good
produced by the same cause.

Identifier: | JB/014/050/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1814-09-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	050	Info in main headings field	logic or ethics
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
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	4813
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