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1823 Sept. 11
Deontology Sanctions
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Analytic view
1 fictitious 2. religious. 3 moral
4. physical. 5. retributive. 6. antipathetic 7. sympathetic
Considered in respect of its effects or tendency a sanction
may be termed an inducement: a motive when the tendency is to give birth
to positive action i.e to motion in some direction or restriction where the tendency is to produce the negative
of action — not through
forbearance, in opposition
to whatever inducement
may be in operation in
the other side is the
character of motives.
Considered in respect of the nature of the sensation by which
they are constituted, sanctions are of two sorts — painful
and pleasurable: considered as in an applied state punitive and remunerative. the painful
first mentioned as being most efficient and universally applicable
and applying
Considered in respect of their source they exhibit the
distinctions following.
1. The pain or pleasure in question may be considered as
resulting or apprehended eventually expected to have place
applying either with or without or with the intervention of a
sensitive and intelligent agent: in the first case the sanction
may be stated purely physical or for shortness physical: in the
other case, voluntary or volitional
2. The pain or the pleasure if when the sanction is volitional may be
considered as about eventually resulting or eventually expected to be applied by an a voluntary agent of a known
and continually seen species, or by a voluntary agent of an unknown and never seen species.
in the first case it may be termed the sanction may be termed
voluntary and natural or in one word human; in the other case
natural; in the other, super natural: in the first case
case hyperphysical, supernatural superhuman or religious.
3 When the sanction is human, the pain or the pleasure
may be considered as resulting from the will of some functionary
or functionaries armed with some appropriate share in the
power of government, and acting as such, or from the will
of an individual at large: in the first case the sanction
may be termed legal political, in the other case non-political
4. In the case where it the sanction is political, the pain and or
the pleasure may be considered as resulting from the will
of some a functionary invested with judicial power and
acting as such, as from the will of a functionary invested
with political power not in that shape but some other:
in the first place the political may be termed the legal or
judicial sanction, in the other case the administrative
In the case where the
sanction is judicious
the sanction
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