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1819 June 11

Interests & Duties Prefat or Introd

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§ object Practice

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By these two leading terms will be prudence and benevolence
it will be seen how clear and it is hoped commodious a plan
of division and distribution will be afforded for the whole of the matter
of the practical part of this work, and to this purpose nothing
more will require to be added, than a distinction of which the number
ranged under the head of prudence, and thence a division of the
virtue of prudence into his branches or species.

In one one class of cases will be seen in which the happiness
of no other person is at any way in any immediate way at stake
otherwise than the person himself when
considered as applied to this class of cases, prudence will be made
to take receive the name of Purely self-regarding prudence: the interest
of others is not an occasion to be considered no other
persons being so circumstanced as that their interest is
at stake upon what is done or not done.

Dictates of purely self-regarding prudence will therefore
constitute the title of the matter combined in the first division of this
practical part.

When the happiness of others as well as his own is at
stake upon the conduct he is about to pursue, mans own happiness
it has already been observed will be the sole immediate and
ultimate as well as immediate object of his case solicitude, that of
others no further than in so far as his own happiness is affected
in virtue of the way in which the happiness of others is affected
by his conduct. But whensoever the happiness of others is affected
by the conduct a man pursues, his own happiness it will be
shewn will in some way or other be affected by the manner in which
theirs
theirs is affected by it.

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By these leading terms
prudence and benevolence
commodious the
principle of distribution
afforded for the practical
part of the work

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Prudence is
Purely self-regarding
viz. where the no interests
but those of the
agent are at stake
Dictate of purely
self regarding prudence
constitute the title of
the matter of the
subdivision 1 if the
1st division of the
practical part.

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II. Extra-regarding
prudence — when the
interests of others are
at stake. Though
a mans own happiness
is the sole immediate
and ultimate effect of
his case, yet is generally
affected is his
own happiness by the
effect which his actions
have on other mens
happiness, thus do benevolence
necessarily no object of his care in respect of prudence.

Identifier: | JB/014/234/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1819-06-11	Marginal Summary Numbering	8-10
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	234	Info in main headings field	interests and duties
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	4997
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