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1828 Decr 1 Deontology Private Virtue and Vice their reference to pain and pleasure
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Beginning
Yourself, Reader, and all others: in
Subject matter of the present consideration in yourself
and all others
Objects of consideration and endeavour your greatest happiness
and that of all others.
Subject matters of every mans consideration in
himself and all others
Object Himself and all other beings — these are the subject
matters of the most experienced. The all-comprehensive
intelligence
His own happiness and that of all other beings
who have feelings — these are objects subjects of consideration most
objects of endeavour — to the most — to all-comprehensive
benevolence
Deontology 11 Jany 1831
Vanity and Pride
Sole effective mode of
exposition for moral
terms indicative of
the relation they what
the virtues associated
with them bear to
those of pains and pleasures
Apply this to Vanity
and Pride., To
the import of those
words this is the
only key.
Happiness consists of and is in proportion to
the aggregate of pleasure, and exemption from pains
Virtue is that which contributes to happiness — to
maximization of the aggregate of pleasures, to minimization of
the aggregate of pains. Vice, that which contributes to unhappiness
is minimization of the aggregate of pleasures — to maximization
of the aggregate of pains.
Seek your own happiness in the first place; says
Nature to any man human being or to any other sensible being.
Seek your own the happiness of others in the next
place; seek your own happiness through the medium of that
of others, say with conjunct voices — extra-regarding Prudence
and Effective benevolence
Prudence and effective benevolence in
in order of too hard may be reckoned whatsoever been
and so justify intellect to the name of Virtue
Extra Plainly self-regarding Prudence and Extra-regarding
Prudence
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