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1819 March

Deontology private Ch. Definitions

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§. 1. Virtues & Vices

Though when there is no utility usefulness either in act or tendency
there is no virtue, utility does not of itself and by itself
it is manifest constitute virtue: an act may to any degree
degree be a useful one, without being and not be a virtuous one.

It may be an absolutely necessary one: the individual act necessary to the existence of the an individual
the species of act necessary to the existence of the whole species: and still there may be no virtue in it.

The act of eating and
drinking is in the one
case: the act of procreation
is the other.

To give to a useful act the character of a virtuous
one it is therefore necessary that in the production of it
something of effort shall have been employed: employed
in the production either of the individual act in question,
or of a correspondent habit and disposition of which
it is the result.

Virtue may be said to consist of to be manifested in so far as a sacrifice made
of the lesser to the greater good in a case cases in which on the
part of mankind in general the sacrifice is attended with
more or less difficulty.

Virtue may be said to consist in the be
Virtue is considered as being exercised or manifested
in so far as a course conducive to the good of the person
or persons when good is in question is pursued by a man
in a case in which on the part of the generality of mankind
the pursuing of that course would be attended with more
or less difficulty

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