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1827 Apr. 17. 1
Deontology Private Ch. Beginning?
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§.1. Deontology happiness unhappiness
— virtue, vice
§..1. Private Deontology what — its relation happiness unhappiness virtue,
vice.
1. By Private Deontology commonly called Ethics, —
Morals the art if maximizing the net quantity amount
of happiness in the breast of the person in question by
means of the his general throughout life, without reference to
particular ranks or occupation
2 On the part of each individual The amount of happiness will be greater and
greater in proportion as the increase or say instruments or causes of happiness a person has in his
power are more and more successfully employed: and
the influence of the causes of unhappiness more and more successfully avoided to
be employed.
3. The means of happiness in so far as they are
in every man's power such are constituted by the direction
taken to by his will, and thence by the exercise given to
his action power of action are designated by one word virtue
the causes of unhappiness in so far as above, by one
word of an opposite signification — vice
4 Nothing that is called virtue is Entitled to that
name except in respect of its being and so far as it contributes is contributing
to the happiness: to the happiness of the agent himself, or of
to some other being endowed with sensibility
5. Nothing that is called vice is entitled to than
name except in so f regard to its being and so far as
it is contributing to unhappiness — to the unhappiness
of the agent himself or of some other being endowed with
sensibility.
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