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1828 June 29
Deontology Private
Hume's Virtues
If as believed, Virtue is not the genus generalissimum
employed by Hume the circumstance that
many his qualities many of them, do not properly
come under that denomination reflects no imputation
upon his discernment.
Virtue at any rate in the useful acceptation
of it denotes a factitious quality in contradistinction
to a natural one .. I say useful, for in as far as
it comes of its own accord, no attention, or regard
paid to it is either needful or useful
In so far as factitious it is the result of an exercise of the will, of
attention fixt upon the subject — and having an end in
view. In the first instance, requiring a sacrifice of present
to future contingent good, it requires and is accompanied
with self-denial: whats supposes a degree more or less
of uneasiness: but as practice grows into a habit the
uneasiness grows less and less, and in many instances
will vanish altogether: as in the case of positive effective
benevolence.
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