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26 June 1816

☞ Before power speak of obligation

The field of coercive power is coextensive with the field of obligation.

Political power is either directly immediately effective, or unimmediately
effective

Immediately effective political power is either 1. Coercive; or
2. influential.

Coercive power is either 1. physically coercive or
2. psychologically or pneumatically coercive

This In the exercise of physically coercive powerv the end in which the subject is wrought though even where a sensitive being and that
a rational one is wrought acted upon is the same as
that in which any insensitive being is wrought upon.

Coercive power is that which of which the matter of
evil in the shape of the matter of punishment is the instrument:
influential power is that of which the matter
of good in the shape of the matter of reward is the
instrument.

To the force of Coercive power there are no assignable hands: to the
force of the influential power there are assignable hands.
Of influential power the force can not go beyond that
which is applicable applied by the substraction of the matter of
of reward good in the shape of the matter of reward: the
substraction, viz. the fear apprehended danger of that event.

In some situ this or that particular situation the
maximum of the force of the influential power may by possibility rise nearly to a
level with that of coercive: viz. ex. gr. where the portion of the matter of good
in question is the matter of sustenance: and this in such sort that of the substractive the case is such
of it death is the consequence. In this case Between the one and the other the
only difference is the indifference
between the
pain of d attendant
in death for want of
sustenance and the
pain of the most excruciating
which
human nature can by
any means be subjected to.


Identifier: | JB/015/040/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.

Date_1

1816-06-26

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

015

Main Headings

deontology

Folio number

040

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d1 / e1

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

john dickinson & c<…> 1813

Marginals

Paper Producer

a. levy

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1813

Notes public

ID Number

5256

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