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10 Sept 1814

Logic or Ethics Ch.

1 Virtue, what

Ch. Virtue, what. [its main divisions.] Virtue self-regarding
& extra regarding. Prudence its relation to self-regarding
Probity Benevolence and Beneficence — their relation to Extra-regarding Virtue and Vice unmeaning but for [their
relation to] Pain & Pleasure
Of Virtue is either the effects, such effects as it is productive of may
be considered either in respect of the their influence they on
the well-being of other persons, or in respect of their influence
on the well-being of the man himself. In the first
case it may be said to be of the extra-regarding kind
to be considered in an extra-regarding point of view — and
to be of the extra regarding kind — in the other case of to
be considered in a self-regarding point of virtue view,
and or to be of the self-regarding kind.

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Virtue, self extra regarding
and self-regarding

When the virtue is of Considered in an extra-regarding
point of view, the maintenance of the conduct the acts which it is considered as
requiring at a mans hands, and which in so far as
he is properly termed virtuous he is considered as
maintaining as either considered either as being, or as
not being matter of under the any obligation (a) of maintaining: in the former
of these two cases the vir produce probity is the appellation by which
the virtue is wont to be designated: in the other case, beneficence.

Extra regarding is
probity or beneficence

In be W Where In so far as the virtue is of the self-regarding
kind it consists of a practical preference given or in relinquishing of a relinquishment
a present or nearer good in for the sake of one in the view of obtaining
one which is more remote at the time in question, but upon the whole more
valuable: the relinquishing a greater present or nearer good: i.e. either
the his abstinence from a present or nearer pleasure, or the his subjecting
himself to a present or nearer pain

Extra regarding or
self regarding virtue
supposes a sacrifice
if self-regarding, of
the nearer to the
less near but proper,
direct good.

Note
(a) viz. by means of placed under obligation by the power of one
or other of the four sanctions viz. physical, popular or moral,
political including legal, and religious

Identifier: | JB/014/084/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1814-09-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	3
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	084	Info in main headings field	logic or ethics
Image	001	Titles	ch. virtue, what
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] mj&l 1811]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	colonel aaron burr
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1811
Notes public		ID Number	4847
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