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31 Aug. 1814
Logic or Ethics Ch. 2. Modes of moralizing
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§.1. Proper mode
Of the practical moralist what then is the proper
function? 1. For the use of each man to point out and
bring to his view — what to lay before his eyes a sketch of
the probable future more correct and compliant than without
the benefit of such suggestion, mens appetites and passions inflamed by the view of prison or speedy pleasure or pain
will be apt in general to suffer them him to draw for
their his own use: — to assist them in making reflections and
drawing comparisons — in taking a account correct and compleat
account of the past — and from thence in drawing inferences
and forming eventual calculation and eventual conjecture in relation
to the future: to assist thereby to each man to administer assistance
thereby to assist them — in the first place in the choice of
subordinate i.e. subordinate i.e. particular ends — in the next place of the means through which the obtainment
of those pleasures
repectialy shall be aimed
at endeavoured at:
of particular ends, viz. the i.e. in the choice regard to pleasure in the
choice of the species of pleasures to be sought after and of the occasions
situations in which and occasions on which each pleasure
shall be reaped: in regard to pain, of the choice of the
species of pains most studiously to be avoided, {and of the
situations in which, and the occasions in which the avoidance
of tehm respectively may be pursued with most effect,}
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