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1817 Apr. 29 2
Interest Deontology & Duty Ch. 1
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§.1. Interest & duty — how related
Regarding as an incontrovertible fact, that no man
ever has done or ever can do any thing act which at the
moment of action is not, in the largest sense that
though that not an improper one that can be given to the
word interest, no man ever has done any thing which at
the moment of action it is not in his own eyes at least his interest to do, every thing
that which in the course of this work I shall say, will be
bottomed on this ground.
By one man the conduct of an individual
another man may be influenced in either of two ways:
1. by shewing him causing him to believe that without any thing done by the
party influencing it is already the mans interest of the man in question
so to do, or 2. by doing something some act one consequence of which
it becomes his interest so to do, though it would not have
been otherwise: in a word either by simply indicating inducements,
or by creating inducements
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