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1819 June 24 Marginals revised

Deontology private Prefat or Introd

1.
Object of this work rendering
men's 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 these
and several intermediate
objects: pleasure and pain
— desires — motives — affections,
dispositions &c

3.
That it is not a man's
duty to do what upon
the whole it is his interest
not to do: accordingly
laws have for their object
the making a man's interest
coincide with
that which they make
his duty.

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

5.
Shewn will be, the relation
of virtue and vice to
interests and duties: and
that virtue is in proportion
to tendency to promote
happiness.

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6.
All virtues are modifications
either of prudence
or benevolence or both: all
that is worth regard for
its own sake being happiness:
all happiness the do.
of the agent, or of others.

7.
Ultimate practical object
shewing to each
what conduct will be
most conducive to his
own happiness: to do. of others
no otherwise than in so
far as the interest of others
coincides with his: i:e
by promoting do. of others
to promote his: that any
further regard should be had
for do. of others is shewn
to be neither generally
possible not beneficial
but that more than men
are generally aware every
man's happiness is
promoted by promoting do.
of others.

8.
By these leading terms
prudence and benevolence,
commodious the
principle of distribution
afforded for the practical
part of the work

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9.
Prudence is
1. Purely self-regarding
viz where no interests
but those of the agent
are at stake — Dictates of
purely self regarding
prudence constitute the
title of the matter of such
division 1st of the 1st
division of the practical
part.

10.
II Extra-regarding prudence:
where the interests
of others are at stake
though a man's own happiness
is the sole immediate
and ultimate object
of his case, yet so
generally affected is his
own happiness by the
effect which his actions
have on other man's happiness,
that do. become necessarily
an object of his
care in respect of prudence

11.
Thence, to know in
such cases what are the
dictates of prudence
it becomes necessary
to know what are the
do. of benevolence —
Hence, title of the matter
of subDivision 2d.
of the first division of the
practical part, Dictates
of benevolence.

12.
Remains for do. of Division
3 of do. Dictates
of Extra Regarding
Prudence

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13.
Object under this had head to
shew how far it is for a
man's ultimate interest
to sacrifice his own immediate
do. to the interests
of others.

Identifier: | JB/014/240/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1819-06-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-13
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	240	Info in main headings field	deontology private marginals revised
Image	001	Titles
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1813
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1813
Notes public		ID Number	5003
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