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1819 Mar. 2

Deontology 1. Purely self-regarding

1

To give up any the least particle of pleasure for any other purpose
than that of obtaining for a man's self or some other person a
greater quantity of pleasure or of saving oneself or some other
person from a more than equivalent quantity of pain, is not virtue
but folly.

To cause or endeavour to cause any other person to give up any
particle of pleasure for any other purpose than that of obtaining for a
man's self or some other person a greater quantity of pleasure or of
saving oneself or some other person from a more than equivalent
quantity of pain, is not virtue but vice:— is not beneficence or benevolence
but maleficence or malevolence.

Spuerne voluptates: (says Horace:) docet empta dolare voluptas. —
be pleasures spurned: hurtful's the pleasure which is bought
by pain. Silly is this precept — sadly silly taken according to the
words but no such silly notion had the poet in his head. No
such silly notion was it even his meaning to inculcate. But to
have rendered it otherwise than silly would have spoiled the
verse: and, when the option is — between truth and verse — between
serving and pleasing, extraordinary indeed must that
Poet be who makes any other choice than that which we see
made by Horace. What was it that he really meant to inculcate?
What but that which has just been brought to view?

Utilitas (says he in another place) utilitas justi prope mater aequi.
utility as it were the Mother of that which is right and equitable
Here we see the principle of utility set up as the standard of
right and wrong in express terms: terms the import of which is
plain enough though here too for this too is poetry the expression
wants more or less of being correct and compleat and what is utility
what but the property of producing pleasure or preventing pain as above



Identifier: | JB/014/222/001
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Date_1

1819-03-02

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

014

Main Headings

deontology

Folio number

222

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

john dickinson & c<…> 1813

Marginals

Paper Producer

a. levy

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1813

Notes public

ID Number

4985

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