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1819 Feb. 22.

Deontology private Ch. 1 Definitions

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§.1. Virtues & Vices

Considered as exercised under particular circumstances,
beneficence assumes the name of justice.

Opposite to the virtue termed justice, is the vice termed
injustice.

Justice is the name given to beneficence, in so far as the exercise
of it is regarded as matter of obligation.

This art with the science appertaining to it has for its
object the shewing how on every imaginable occasion,
happiness may be promoted or say increased by the exercise
of virtue in all its modes — by the avoidance of
vice.

Such is the object of this work.

Considered with relation to happiness, every human
act is either indifferent or important: indifferent by when
producing no effect on considered as not producing happiness; important when
considered as producing some an effect of one or other an of the
two opposite sorts, to wit increase or decrease, [is a
tendency to the one or the other.] In so far as it is considered
as productive of an increase to happiness it is termed
good, is beneficial: is salutary, in so far as it is considered as productive of
decrease, evil or pernicious.

Of the various acts, whether individual or sorts
of acts by which happiness is considered as increased,
it is not every one that is commonly termed virtuous.
The acts most beneficial are, those which are most necessary:
the acts most necessary are those without which the individual
can not be kept in existence, and those that without which the species can
pt in existence: by the exercise of neither of these acts, is a
man
man ever regarded,
being in every souse
degree a man of v
by the exercise of neither
there is virtue cons

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Date_1	1819-02-22	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	218	Info in main headings field	deontology private
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