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1829. June 9 + + R2 Original 2o.

Article on Utilitarianism.

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Epoch on Hume's Essays

As to pleasure and pain mention is made of them: indeed, as above observed
but no otherwise, there in the same general way in which utility itself
is mentioned: and as to pain exemption from which is at least as necessary to happiness as
pleasures are,
mention is made instead of correspondent
mention, either no
mention is made or
next to none: nor of
any such
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Of pleasure no mention
but in the general way in
which utility is mentioned
Of pain no mention or
next to none
and then in general terms, but of no such idea as that of
giving a list of different sorts of each are any traces is any the least
trace visible. Of these elementary component parts of every mass
of good and evil, whether pure or mixt, no account
being taken, — no criteria of right and wrong — no answers to
the questions what ought to be done and what ought to be left
undone is on any occasion endeavoured to be furnished by him: virtues
Of particular virtues As to virtues and vices names in great abundance are
scattered here and there, but no distinct idea of it for want of any intimation to the contrary they are
all placed in the same level, as by the Stories of Horace is to be believed nor are any boundary lines
— misdeeds (peccata) are
in express terms,
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Of particular virtues
names in abundance but
all placed on the same
level and undistinguished
by which they might be distinguished from one another
any where attempted to be drawn. They are distributed
into classes: but by the classification given to them little if any
assurance is given to the operation of determining in what different
ways or proportions they are conducive to happiness.

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None but vague generalities
on the subject

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So of reason & sentiment
as the foundation of morals

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On good & evil as on
utility all he says is
mere speculation

Scarce Visible scarce any where is any proposition, of a character none is
than that for which the designation of what the term vague generalities has been changed by Mr Bentham
has history of use to employ the appellation vague generalities
any where to be found. As among his writing on on the field of law till
of late years what that which what ought to be is seldom made
a question, and, when it is, made a question is, without notice, confounded
at every turn with the question what is, so in the field of
morals in this work of David Hume. [+] In one of his
[+] Employed as the table
to one part of his had
awkwardly derided
hodge-podge are the
words of the general
principles of Morals
and presently afterward
which is the proper foundation and presently afterwards, after speaking of the foundation or general
" of morals reason and and sentiment — but the which composition are immediately spoken of as
the only foundation source would have been more appropriate) from which
being a piece of generality work, no more mention made of, or
they can have been derived: but the whole composition being a tissue of vague
reference generalities, no reference is or so much as allusion, to particular pains and
pleasures: and, upon the whole, the question is left by him in the a state of
confusion little different from if any thing less thick than that in which he found it

As As for good and evil, as it is no otherwise than by observation made of the pleasures
and pains issuing from the several species of actions in question and
of the elements of value in regard to each that any account can
be taken or ob
-tively produced by things
all that he says on
these subjects, including
all he says on the subject
of "utility, rests on consists of more species
of it

or is capable of being applied, in such sort as to be of use to practice: like a cloud, which floating in the air at different levels but never in the form of
rain descending upon the earth, does but tantalize the thirsty traveller contributing any thing towards his relief.

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Date_1	1829-06-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	16-20
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	404	Info in main headings field	article on utilitarianism
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