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10 Sept 1814

Logic or Ethics Ch Object

3 Virtue what

If to the use import made of these words this extension be given,
in this case but in this only alone can it be said with propriety,
that vir in the idea of virtue is included that of
sacrifice and that of self-denial: and by this means
and by this means only the exposition given of it may
be reduced to the comparatively concise expression above
exhibited.

That in the more ordinary and less extensive application
of the words sacrifice and self-denial
the ideas respectively expressed by those words are not
either of them necessarily included in the idea of virtue,
will presently be seen to be incontestable will be sufficiently apparent. To the appellation
of virtue in cases to a large extent at least the title of courage the quality
or courageousness is indisputable. But in so far as
it consists in a mans exposing himself to pain
to bodily pain for example and suppose it to be without
unaccompanied with danger to life, in this case no sacrifice
is made there being no object to sacrifice the operation
thus designated not having any assignable object: and
so again in regard to self-denial: no self-denial has
place, there being nothing which the case not affording
any thing the possession of which being capable of being
obtained by a man for himself is accordingly capable
of being ded by him a man to himself.

Identifier: | JB/014/087/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1814-09-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	087	Info in main headings field	logic or ethics
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	4850
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