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10 Sept 1814

Logic or Ethics Ch Object

4 Virtue what

As to In regard to On the subject of inclination in addition to the particular
inclination of the individual in question, it becomes necessary
to subjoin the mention of the general inclination of mankind:
otherwise, in and by the account given of virtue, virtue
in the most perfect degree of perfection might have appeared
to have stood excluded.

In proportion as over the desire in question a man has
acquired a command, the resistance to the its impulse becomes
less and less difficult, till at length the all difficulty in some
constitutions all difficulty may have vanished, things
may have come to such a pass that all difficulty is at
an end. At an early part of his life for instance
a man has had a taste for wine in general or for a
particular species of food. Finding it disagree with his constitution,
little by little the uneasinesses attendant on the
gratification of the appetite desire have become so frequent and in
so experience and so continually present in idea, that
the idea of the future but near and certain pain has
gained such strength as to overpower the impression of the
present pleasure, or what comes to the same thing, the
idea of it at the moment when but for preceding that at which the idea of the
attendant pain it would have been reaped. In fine
the idea of the consequent and greater though more distant pain has operated as an extinguisher
upon the idea of the lesser though immediate pleasure. [+]
[+] In this way it is,
that, by the power of appreciation
things which originally
had been objects
of desire, become have, at length
been rendered objects of aversion,
and as on the other hand things
that which originally had been
objects of aversion, such
as medicines for instance
are have been rendered objects of desire.
In this state of things, there being the good the pleasure which had been being no
longer in existence, there is no good in the case no pleasure capable of
being sacrificed: and in like manner in regard to self-denial,
there being no the desire which originally had been
calling for its gratification being no longer in existence,
there remains no call to which any denial can be opposed.

Identifier: | JB/014/088/001 "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	088a "a" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 88.	Info in main headings field	logic or ethics
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4
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	4851
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