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18 Sept. 1814 4
Logic or Ethics Ch. 2. Self Extra regardg
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Subjoin to this sheet a stricture on Sentimentalism, what may
ascribes to the Utilitarian that opinion that selfishness is the inner of any
thing that is done — Selfishness being dyslogistic.
1. In the first place comes the interest corresponding to
and produced by the affection of sympathy or benevolence + + In Spring Table, No
This it is true is is like extra-regarding interest, but it is
not the less a self-regarding one. {Equus} is in distress,
this distress is observed by Liberatis.} By the force of sympathy
the pain felt by Equus becomes by means of the manifestations evidences
made of it, productive of correspondent pain in
in the bosom of Liberatis. To relieve himself from this
pain, and obtaining and to obtain at the same time from by means of the same act a portion of
pleasure of the opposite and correspondent pleasure, he relie
relieves applies relief to this distress. If to apply to for the purpose of applying
Equus this relief, the correspondent exemption is this exemption from pain relief lengthened
by the correspondent pleasure, Liberatus puts himself to
any expence, in this case as in other cases of expenditure
a competition has place between the
interest served by the expenditure, and the interest (in this
case the pecuniary interest disserved by it. But by the
supposition the in relief is applied: therefore the interest
served by the expenditure, the interest of sympathy is has been the
preponderant one.
Add a stricture on the absurdity and injustice of the sentimentalist
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