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1819 June 11 +

Interests and Duties Preface or Introd

1

1. Mans objec Practical applic

Mans Interests and Duties &c

Preface or Introduction

This work has for its object the placing of mans interests
and duties in every situation matter of private life in as clear and
satisfactory a point of view as possible.

To this purpose it is necessary to bring to view the relation
between interest and duty, the relation between both of them on the one
hand and Virtue and Vice on the other, together including with the initial
relation between several intermediate objects [the number of
which is continually and necessarily occurring in every book which takes the
field of morals for its subject.]

One thing which there will be occasion On this occasion which it will be necessary to shew is that
it never is to any practical purpose a mans duty to do that which
it is his interest not to do: and that accordingly all laws in so
far as they have for their object the happiness of those concerned, have for their endeavour to
cause that it to be for a man's interest to do that which they make
it his duty to do: and that thus far interest and duty and interest and thus to bring his interest and his duty and his interest into coincidence
are coincident objects coincide.

That a man ought to sacrifice his interest to his duty is a
very common phrase position, that he do such & such a one has
on such or such an occasion sacrificed his interest to his duty is a very common assertion
But when both interest and duty are considered in their broadest
sense it will be seen that in the general line of life the act of
sacrifice is neither possible nor so much as desirable: that it
can not take place, and that if it were to have place, the
sum total of the happiness of mankind would not be augmented by it.

1
Object of this work
rendering mens interests
and duties in private
life clear.

2.
necessary to be
shewn
1. Relation between interest
and duty.
2 — between both do.
and Virtue and Vice
3. Relation between

3

it is his interest
not to do: accordingly
laws have for their
object the making
a mans interest coincide
with which
with his duty

4
That in the general
line of life a
man should sacrifice
his interest to his duty
is neither practically
nor with reference
to the sum of human happiness
desirable




Identifier: | JB/014/232/001
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Date_1

1819-06-11

Marginal Summary Numbering

1-4

Box

014

Main Headings

deontology

Folio number

232

Info in main headings field

interests and duties

Image

001

Titles

man's interests and duties &c / preface or introduction

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e1

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

4995

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