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10 Sept 1814

Logic or Ethics Ch Object

10 Virtue what

From what is above, if to the word virtue how any may
intelligible meaning be annexed the following positions observations corollaries
may in the way of corollaries be deduced

[That] The existence of virtue depends upon the
existence of pain and pleasure Virtue for its very existence
depends upon pain and pleasure

It is only in proportion as it is productive of
pleasure or preventive of pain or productive of
pleasure that it is promotive of well-being, possessed
of any positive value, or entitled to any regard.

[That] its dependence on pleasure is altogether
as clear and necessary as its any dependence it has it has on pain

That in respect of what whatever tendency it has to
promote in any to any shape and to any amount pleasure it is of exactly the same value
and entitled to the same regard as in respect
of whatsoever equal in equally strong and efficient tendency it has to prevent avoid
a quantity of pain in any shape in to an amount
corresponding and equivalent equal in value to that such pleasure

[That whatsoever may as above be predicated
of Virtue, the of it may with equal truth be
predicated of vice]

Quere:

That as to vice, this too is and in the same
proportion as Virtue dependent for its very existence upon
pain and pleasure

That it is only in proportion as it is productive of
pain or preventive of pleasure that it is promotive
of ill-being, or a felt object of aversion

That of this vice too the dependence on pain pleasure is altogether
as necessary as any dependence it has on pain.

Identifier: | JB/014/093/001 "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	093	Info in main headings field	logic or ethics
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c10
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] mj&l 1811]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	colonel aaron burr
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1811
Notes public		ID Number	4856
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