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1829 June 8 M3

Article 40

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Greatest happiness
principle and its opposite,
direct and indirect
2. Arist Ipsedixit principle

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In the same work, also
overthrown is the indirectly
opposite — ipsedixit principle.
See pg XX W. ch.

2 Of the opposites to the two rivals and nu of
the greatest happiness principle — remains the indirectly opposite
the ipsedixit principle. With this principle also, in that same work though under
the as yet inadequate and in that respect unapt name.
Mr Bentham grappled, and deals by it in the manner
which may thus be seen. In short he found in it a very
Proteus: and a dozen or thereabouts were the different forms
in which he had to encounter it as may be has been seen in
No XX (or XXI?) of this our Review.

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Nonsense — the progenitor
of ipsedixit principle

To the Ipsedixit principle, not to refuse to it its
due, no worse progenitor can by any the most ill humoured
adversary be ascribed to it than the Genius of Nonsense

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Its characteristic properties
— Mischievousness
— absurdity — inconsistency
— self contradictoriness etc
in the extreme.

Mischievousness, absurdity inconsistency self contradictoriness — all in the extreme —
such are some of the properties which under the name of characteristic
properties may, without much hesitation or danger of error be ascribed to the principle of asceticism,
mischievousness, in exact proportion to the extent in which application
is made of it to practice: for if this is not, what is?
absurdity, for if in this principle absurdity be not found, in
whatever other seat can it be? Suppose a man viewing his
hand against a brick wall — to the operation by which this
was performed — to any opinion or say principle by which
that same operation had been recommended and produced, you
would not to a question is this opinion an absurd one
find much difficulty in answering in the affirmative. But of this
opinion and this practical application of it the conformity
to the principle of asceticism — of the principle which presents
to view the pursuit of augmentation of unhappiness as the proper or as a
proper
proper ultimate end of
human action — is
above dispute. I

Absurd a proposition
may be without inconsistency;
inconsistent a proposition can not be without absurdity: without including absurdity in its picture. I

Self contradictoriness in one and the same proposition, is
inconsistency in its most flagrant form — inconsistency carried to an extreme. I

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Date_1	1829-06-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	70-72
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