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1819 Apr. 30 1
Deontology private
Factual part?
Ch. 1 Prudence self-regarding
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§.1 Secret acts
Character of the class
Ch. 1 ? Self-regarding
Ch. or Part 1. Rules or Dictates Acts falling within the rules of purely — self-regarding prudence
§.1. Character of the acts belonging to this class.
The actions which lie within the dominion of these rules — of the
rules of this class are either such as are being in their nature
unformable are accordingly unformed without out of view of witness say uncogniscible acts or such as
are preformed under within view of witness: or say cogniscible acts.
Those which are performable without out of view of witness
are either: actions purely internal, namely thoughts in so
far as they are voluntary, or 2. external actions: namely all
such external actions as possess as above this quality in common namely that they
are performed or performable without out of view of witness.
[Without belonging to the class of acts belongin coming under
the dominion of benevolence or extra-regarding prudence]
one act may be performable and performed within view knowledge of
witness, although not without belonging to the class of acts coming under
the dominion of within benevolence or of extra-regarding prudence.
fo This is the case as of in so far as, to the feelings of such other persons as are those who witness it
witnesses of it — percipient or recipient witnesses —
the act in question is matter of indifference
In so far as an act belongs to the first class here in question
among human sanction no other human sanction has application to it other
than the pathological.
In so far as an act belongs to the second class, the
sanctions that have application to it may be 1. the revelation —
2. the popular or moral; 3. the political including the
legal.
Note that acts not cogniscible or at any rate not known, in
themselves, may be cogniscible, and accordingly become in some sort
known by their consequences
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