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1819 Feb.

Deontology 1. Prudence self-regarding

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Prudence purely self-regarding regards either actions or thoughts: actions
to wit bodily or external actions for mental or internal actions
are thoughts: actions — i—e. the choice of actions thoughts id es to the
choice of thoughts.

In so far as actions are concerned in question that which prudence can do and
all that it can do cho (that prudence which consists in the choice
of means being out of the question consists in the sacrifice of the
present to the future: in this sacrifice — i—e in so far as and no
further than the aggregate of happiness is thus encreased to wit
by the sacrifice of the lesser present [sacrifice] to the greater future.

Of two portions of happiness equal in magnitude, one present
the other not present, that which is present will always be greater
in value than that which is but future: of that which is but future
the value being lessened by and in proportion to in the first place
— remoteness and in case of uncertainty by the uncertainty

In so far as no portion of time is considered but the present or
if as between pleasure and pleasure pain and pain or pleasure
and pain, the future is regarded as continuing on the same footing
in respect of magnitude and certainty as the present and in the
same degree of propinquity and certainty in all the several cases,
virtue is out of the question: the case comes under the dominion
not of virtue but of taste.

Identifier: | JB/014/219/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1819-02-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	219	Info in main headings field	deontology
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	<…> co
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Notes public		ID Number	4982
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