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9 Sept 1814 3

Logic or Ethics Ch Summum bonum

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To the vulgar they left the enjoyment of such pleasure in this or that
such whatever shapes or whatever shape it might fall in the way
of each man to lay hold of. For the scholars their own disciples of their School
they received the summum bonum a thing they called the
summum bonum. This summum bonum what is it?
?
was it pleasure? O no: that pleasure was not good enough
for them: their summum bonum was something that was better
than pleasure: and better it could well be without being different
from it.

Had their practice been of a piece with their doctrine
it would have been that of the dog, who, to hunt the shuder
let drop the substance of a beef stake let drop the stake. Not theirs was no such folly.
Pleasure was good for one use for one thing use, summum bonum for another:
pleasure to be enjoyed; summum bonum to be talked of.
While they were all of them chattering about the summum bonum
each was amusing himself with their respective .
Socrates had his Alcibiades, Plato his Actis, Aristotle
his ,+ each of them his favourites of either
+ Diogenes Laêrtius
sex without number, whom no history has canonized.

Note (a)

(a) Dependent on public opinion for that reputation which
to the head of a party or a set/sect is always money's worth,
and upon occasion many, they know better than to suffer
themselves to be governed by their minions, as James the
first of England was by his. Socrates the most prudent
of them all, Socrates such was the as he himself declared
was the heat of his constitution and such the tone of his
desires, durst not when he came upon his coming in company with a
person of his own sex, durst not if the person were young
and handsome, accept him with the sort of salutation which
was customary, for fear of losing forfeiting his independence.

Identifier: | JB/014/059/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1814-09-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	059	Info in main headings field	logic or ethics
Image	001	Titles	note (a)
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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