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1829. June 4. Article on Utilitarianism.

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Adversaries to greatest
happiness principle

These two, together with the original
contract all emanating from the same illustrious
and justly-respected source were all of them so many
adversaries of the greatest happiness principle:

1 property trumpeting
principle

1. The property-trumpeting principle, as a leading
opinion and axiom into an erroneous and maleficent
course of which more particularly presently,by
pointing to a wrong object or end in view in the
character of a polar star by which the course of
human conduct aught to be directed:

2 The original contract

2. The original contract by teaching men to look
for the proper end of government not in the conduciveness
of its form & arrangements to the greatest
happiness of the community but to the observance of
a fiction which ever if it had been a reality would
have wanted much of being an adequate substitute
to the greatest happiness principle. For true it is indeed
that in most cases observance of contracts
is conducive to the maximum of happiness. But in
cases to a vast extent so far from being conducive
to that purpose it would be destructive of it.Take
for example the whole field of crime : suppose a
contract having for its object the perpetration
of any one of the crimes contained in that same
field. Such accordingly is the species of contract
actually entered into in the case of every individual
crime in the contrivance of which there is concert
as well as cooperation on the part of individuals
more than one : individuals who in consideration of
such concert are with reference to one another
in familiar as well as legal language stiled accomplices.

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Date_1	1829-06-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	24
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	329	Info in main headings field	article on utilitarianism
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Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	street & co
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer	antonio alcala galiano
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