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10 Sept 1814

Logic or Ethics Ch Object

7 Virtue, what

According to their account, forasmuch as virtue consists
in doing every thing that requires to be done in doing without any expence on the articles of self-vanities
is self-denial whatsoever requires to be done, the consequence
should be is that for every whole virtue there should be a
half-virtue. Accordingly, though with a hesitation
for which it seems not very easy to find any assigned
ground, intimation of this corresponding is actually given [is given in the
book] "Horum tot fori genera staten possient, quet sunt
virtutes perfectae."+ Fori? why fori? why not penitus?
+ p 69
And to any no such question is any answer to be found.

Be this as it may, speaking continuing to speak of these half-virtues
they may be commodiously reduced (he says) to two classes heads denominations
Continentiae et Tolerantia.— continence and tolerance.
whereof Of this division he goes on to observe that it corresponds
with that of appetite into the concupiscible and
the irascible: continence being that the virtue by which the concupiscible,
tolerance that by which the irascible is
taken in hand and governed.

But forasmuch as between whole virtue and
half-virtue there exists not according to him any other
difference than that which is constituted by consists in the difference
between the absence and the presence of reluctance, this
same division with continence and tolerance, thus brought
forward for the purpose of being applied to half-virtues
and not before, should have been with equal propriety
applicable, and should accordingly have been applied
to the whole virtues: but neither to his whole-virtues is any
all together not to any one of them by itself is any such
application made.

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Date_1	1814-09-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	090	Info in main headings field	logic or ethics
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c7
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	4853
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