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1829 June 8 M2

Article on Utilitarianism.

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Greatest happiness
principle and its opposite
direct and indirect
1. Ascetic principle.

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To ascetic principle
J. B. godfather in Introd.

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If any man does not deny that
the pursuit of pleasure &
avoidance of pain is conduct
not worthy of reproach — on
him rests the onus to shew
any occasion on which such
a line of conduct is exposed
to reproach.

1. To The ascetic principle — the direct opposite of the greatest
happiness principle Mr Bentham stood Godfather, and
under that name brought it to view in his Introduction
to Morals or as above. Amongst other characteristic and distinguishing
properties it has this — namely that to present it in
the character of an all comprehensive principle — a principle of which
on every occasion of life application to practice ought to be used, a principle to which
on every such occasion human conduct ought to make itself
and to be made improvable is what no man was ever
meant to advance, no man without presenting an incontestable
title to a situation in a lunatic asylum, can ever advance.
No man who will deny but that occasion has place
in which the enjoyment and accordingly the pursuit of pleasure in some
shape or other, and the endeavour to avoid experiencing pain in
some shape or other modes and courses of action not justly
exposed to well grounded reproach. But if this is true in any
one case, on any one occasion it rests upon him who says that
there is any occasion in which it is not true to produce that
same occasion, and say why it is that on that same occasion
it is not true: word on and so in the case of every
exception which he would be for cutting out of the general rule.
in a word on the opponent of the pri greatest happiness principle
— on the partizan of the ascetic principle, has the onus
burthen of proof — the onus probandi in the more
common familiar though at once antique and foreign costume in which the
intellectual obligation is commonly clothed.

69.
J. B. Hercules has overthrown
in Introd: Daemon
of Asceticism — Father
of Lies

In these just material wish of his, this Hercules of
wars has grappled with the Daemon Evil Genius of Asceticism, and thrown
him on the ground — or if to any lover of imagery a deeper the idea of
spot is more agreeable — his nature h, from which no battle-
holder has as yet appeared to take him up. In a word And in truth, it seems
not
easy not altogether easy
to find for the Daemon of
Asceticism a more
legitimate progenitor
than him who is on whom has such
high and incontestable
authority has already been conferred
the state and title
of the Father of Lies. I

Identifier: | JB/014/348/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1829-06-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	67-69
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	348	Info in main headings field	article on utilitarianism
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2 / f39
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	b&m 1829
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	5111
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