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14 Sept. 1814 1

Logic or Ethics Ch. Temperance Theory?

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Ch. or § Temperance.

Temperance has for its objects the pleasures of sense.
Of these there is not one the abstinence from which
may not as well as the abstinence from any be without
impropriety referred to this head. And forasmuch
as [+] [+] subject to the restriction
abovementioned +
self-denial and i.e. sacrifice of inclination pleasure is of
the essence of virtue, hence it is that in the instance
of some of the pleasures of sense, {may be found} abstinence
from which would scarcely be deemed to afford
matter enough for so imposing magnificent a name.

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[+] Opposite to the virtue,
such as it is, of temperance
is the vice
of intemperance.

Mischievous Productive of preponderant a preponderance on the side of mischief to a man himself, intemperance
is a breach of prudence: productive of mischief
to others it is a breach of probity.

Productive of neither mischief in neither of these
shapes, he to whom can it be a mischief, how can
it to any person be a mischief?

But if it be not, then — according to if the principle
of utility — of the greatest happiness of the greatest number
be the true and only standard and conduciveness
or opposition to that end the only test of right and
wrong — then in any other case, except when in
one or other or both together of those two shapes enjoyment is productive
of preponderant mischief, neither can abstinence have
any claim to the name and praise of virtue, nor in
if request to be with justice considered as subject to the
reproach of vice.

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Date_1	1814-09-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	123	Info in main headings field	logic or ethics
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