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"a piece of furniture — a vestment — a house" — where these are are useful by being
conducive to the end that is sought. He speaks mentions
pleasure & pain, — but no where does he present pleasures &
exemptions from pains as the elements — the whose aggregate is designated
by the word happiness. He introduces without any attempt to show their relationship or dependence pleasures, pains, desires, emotions
affections, passions, interests, virtues, vices, & other entities in the direst confusion —
looking like so many equestrians in the ride called Rotten Row — or
dancing before the eyes like atoms in the sunshine — undefined &
indistinct, — without any attempt to show the reference to
pleasure is like the reference to utility, — vague & unsatisfactory; —
the reference to pain, exemption from which is at least as necessary
to happiness as th is the presence of pleasure, — is even more
vague & distant. No trace is visible of that separation of plea analysis by which
happiness into its component parts one sort of pleasure or pain
is distinguishable from another. Of the elementary component
parts of every mass of good & evil — whether pure or mixed, — no
account is taken — no criterion of right or wrong is advanced — no
answer found for the [question, — 'What ought to be done — &
what left undone?' And so as to virtues — of particular
virtues names, in great abundance are scattered here & there —
but as Horace's Satires placed misdeeds (peccata) all on the
same level, — so Hume arranges his virtues in the same line —
drawing no boundary between them, — giving no rules by which
they are to be distinguished from one another. Classified indeed
they are, — but their classification is of no assistance to the
great & only important Inquiry, as to the proportions in which
they are conducive to happiness. The propositions that Hume has
put forward are the are thus for the most part vague generalities
a dangerous & unsatisfactory result affording no information to



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014

Main Headings

deontology

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416

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001

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linking material

Number of Pages

1

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recto

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f5

Penner

sir john bowring

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[[watermarks::[partial hall]]]

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5179

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