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13 May 1816 §.3

Ethics or Deontology 1. deontological
§.2 Ex & practical

Add — to par. 1. Principle of Utility — its two
correspondent names.

Deontological Ethics has for its indispensable foundations
Exegetical Ethics. By no other means can you will
any pro rational prospect of success can you endeavour
to cause a man to do so and so otherwise by any other means / than by
shewing him that it is or making it to be his interest
so to do

Points Found Pointing constituting the ground of Exegetical
Ethics

1. By interest in some shape or other is

1. On every occasion the conduct of every man is determined by
the view by which on that occasion is taken by him

1. On every occasion, by interest in some shape or other
is the conduct of every man determined: i.e. by the view
conception which on that occasion is formed by him in relation
to such his interest.

2 Of To<add> the word interest the import is no otherwise than no clear idea can be attached
by its relation to the import of the words pain and pleasure
and pain: for which see Table of Springs of Action Corresponding
to every species of pleasure and a every species of
pain is a species of interest

3. In the case of the most extensively beneficent, generous
and heroic action that ever was performed or ever by
possibility be conceived this subjection dependence of conduct to interest
will not be less indispensably incontestably true and thence in the case of the most
maleficent mischievous or selfish. In the case of the suppose beneficent action
the interest is of the social kind or class and acting on the most
extensive scale: in the case of the supposed mischievous action, the interest
is of the dissocial or antisocial class, in the case of the selfish, of the self-regarding class




Identifier: | JB/014/186/001
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Date_1

1816-05-13

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

014

Main Headings

deontology

Folio number

186

Info in main headings field

ethics or deontology

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d1 / e1

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

<…> co

Marginals

Paper Producer

a. levy

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

4949

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