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1813 Sept. 11
Deontology Sanctions
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For illustration, the vice of of the tendency, effects and
mode of operating of these several sanctions, the vice positive practice of drunkenness
and the opposite and negative virtue of sobriety may serve: and
for an exemplification of the tendency and effects of the several sanctions
punitive and remunerative, originating in flowing from these several sources
and applying themselves to the promotion of the virtue and the
repression of the vice, reference may be made to Hogarths
scenes of the respective progression of the drunken and the sober
apprentices
Timothy Thoughtless and Walter Wise were fellow prentices. Thoughtless
gets into the sin of drunkenness: Wise abstained from it. Mash
the consequences.
1. Physical sanction. After For each debauch, Thoughtless
was rewarded by the physical sanction with sickness and headache:
[to recruit] he lay a used to lie in bed the next morning: he thus
by degrees relaxed and enervated his whole frame.
2. Super natural and super human sanction While thus lying in a state of bodily sufferance,
his mind was alarmed and afflicted by the imagination
of an angry and avenging deity, to whom the practice
of this sin could not fail to be an object of displeasure
3. Political sanction — and judicial In the course of one of his drinking bouts, he sallied
forth with some apprentices into the streets, broke windows insulted
passenger, was apprehended, prosecuted convicted and punished
4. Had his manner of life been unexceptionable, a
patron of his would have p for him a respectable ship in
one of the Offices — but by his habits the make of which
were conspicuous upon his countenance and he was too unquestionably
and notoriously unfit for it.
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