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In the year 1789 appeared the Introduction to the
Principles of Morals & Legislation. Here for the first time are
pains & pleasures separately defined, - & regularly grouped - and the
classification & definition of them is so complete for all ordinary
purposes of moral & legislative investigation that Mr Bentham has
found little to modify, - or to add to in the list. By the side of
the pains & the pleasures the corresponding motives are brought to
view, - & a clear & determinate idea attached to the springs
of action by showing their separate operation. And moreover
this truly extra-ordinary & philosophical work the author sifts & uncovers
that phraseology which has done so much mischief has been done
in the field of right & wrong by the judgement of motives, instead
of the judgement of conduct; - so that the same motive is
frequently spoken of in terms opposed to & incompatible with
one another. Sometimes the eulogistic form is adopted to
convey sentiments of approbation, - sometimes the dyslogistic
to communicate sentiments of disapprobation, - sometimes the
neutral, to avoid the expression of the either praise or blame, -
but in all these cases these irrelevant & delusive adjuncts serve
to Inquiry, - and to distort truth. Of this truly [ extraordinary 8 page Sec
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& philosophical work volume it has chanced to the writer to hear the
opinion of several of the most acute and distinguished men
of the present day, (not of the Utilitarian school) who after a discussion as to what literary
work should ought to be considered the most remarkable intellectual production
of the last century, unanimously decided that the "Introduction
to the Principles of Morals & Legislation" was intitled to that
honor. In the later years of Mr Benthams life he was far
from deeming it complete - He had not taken man's interests
& man's desires into his list - and employed the phraseology of
utility instead of that of happiness.



Identifier: | JB/014/435/001
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014

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deontology

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435

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001

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linking material

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1

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recto

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f22

Penner

sir john bowring

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5198

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