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Deontology

1817 4

Extra regarding

Foundation of

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§.1 Office and use of extraregarding deontology

The office and use of the extraregarding branch of deontology
— meaning private deontology — is to engage men in
the practise of probity and beneficence by shewing as far as
this is the case the coincidence of the dictates of probity and beneficence
with those of self regarding prudence.

To point out this coincidence when it exists and as
far as it exists, is (it may seem) all that can be done
by any pre individual teacher acting as such: to give
any increased extent to that coincidence belongs only to him
who for that purpose has been furnished with the
powers of government: in which case any instruction
that comes to be given belongs to the head of not of
private but of political deontology.

But of the means by which the coincidence in
question is capable of being promoted one — and that
indeed the principal — is, the power or influence of the
popular of moral sanction: of the board or
tribunal of public opinion and of this board every individual
who pleases being a member, and almost
every individual act more or less in the habit of acting
as a member, and every man who takes upon himself
to write upon the subject a leading member or at least
— one who is thereby endeavouring to act upright in that character
hence it is that with a degree of influence proportioned to
the approbation he experiences at the hands of his readers
the strength of the impression he makes on their
minds, and the number and influence of these same
readers is his to every such instructor not
only to give indication of this coincidence in so far as
without his exertions it already has place but by means
of those exertions to give additional extent to it.

Whatsoever is, or can be done towards the
extension of this coincidence can by no other means
be done than by the operation of those groups or classes
of interests and corresponding motives which
have been already designated by the appellation
of sanctions.

Under the self regarding branch of deontology
occasion was found for bringing to view the several
sanctions: viz the 1. physical 2. the political including
the legal 3. the popular or moral 4. the social
or sympathetic 5 the religious.

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Date_1	1817	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	197	Info in main headings field	deontology foundation of
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4 / e4
Penner		Watermarks	<…> co
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	4960
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