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1829 Decr. 1.

Deontology Private

1

Beginning

Virtue and Vice the reference of pain and pleasure

Yourself, Reader, and all others: these are

Subject matter of the present consideration are yourself
and all others

Objects of consideration and endeavour your greatest happiness
and that of all others.

Subject matters of every mans consideration are
himself and all others

Object Himself and all other beings — these are the subject
matters of the most expec. The all-comprehensive
intelligence

His own happiness and that of all other beings
who have feelings — those are objects subjects of consideration and
objects of endeavour — to the most expansive — to all-comprehensive
benevolence

Happiness consists of such is in proportion to
the aggregate of pleasures, 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
— to minimization of the aggregate of pleasure — to maximization
of the aggregate of pain

Such your own happiness in the first place; says
nature to every man human being as to any other sensitive being.

Such your own the happiness of others in the next
place — such your own happiness through the nurture of the
of others. Say with conjoint voices — extra-regarding Prudence
— and Effective benevolence

Prudence and effective benevolence. Under these one
or other of these two heads may be ranked whatsoever b
and is justly entitled to the name of Virtue

Extra Purely self-regarding Prudence, and Extra-regarding
Benevolence.

Deontology
Vanity and Pride
Sole effective mode of
exposition for moral
terms indicative of
the relation they what
the actions a
with them bear to
those of pain and pleasure
Apply them to Vanity
and Pride. To
the import of those
words this is the
only key.




Identifier: | JB/014/308/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.

Date_1

1831-01-11

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

014

Main Headings

deontology

Folio number

308

Info in main headings field

deontology

Image

001

Titles

vanity and pride

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

5071

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