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28 June 1816
Polit. Deontology
Wil it be under Utility as above explained, or in other
words happiness as though it be on the largest scale ought
not on this occasion to be taken for the principal standard
– is at any rate not for the sole standard. Justice has
Equal or more superior to utility justice has its claims.
To this there are two answers.
1. The first is – that but in virtue by with measure of its reference to at
its subservience to utility i.e. to happiness justice the
thing meant by justice has no virtue: were the to no, nor
the word justice any intelligible signification. And But for
this see further on.
2. The other is – that even supposing that to the exclusion
or in preference is in coordination with utility justice
be assumed for the standard or propriety, it will even be
the same thing: for it it be justice that is to regulate the distribution
of happiness in a community of individuals at
what number short of the whole can you find any
reason for dipping?
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