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12 July 1816
Polit. Deontology

§ 2. Ends of Government – actual and desirable

Government is a series system of human wills. Every human
act has for its cause. That motive is in every instance
the expectation of eventual pleasure or eventual exemption from pain.
That pleasure or that pain is the pleasure or the pain
of the agent in question. In every instance the pleasure or
the pain which is the object of the expectation is immediate
and thence certain howsoever for its cause it may have an eventually expected pleasure
or exemption from pain how in any degree remote distinct and
thence uncertain.

☞ Add note to say how pleasure and pain may be mixt, how
each may be in any degree intense or slight – and when slight
scarce distinguishable.

2. Note to shew how pleasure and exemption from pain of sympathy may operate.

3. Note to shew how the idea of remote pleasure and exemption
operate.

4. Note to shew how the idea of pleasure and exemption
compounded operate and form the idea of the interest
of the whole of life in general.

5. In text go on to shew how the end (this being the case where the
government is in the hands of one) the description of the
and varies where the han government is in the hands of more
than one – up to the greatest number of the members in
whose hands it can be. Stating how imperfection attached to
Sex? age, &c operate as necessary causes of inclusion
in regard to the majority of every community at each
moment of time.

☞ Inserting here or elsewhere the consideration by from which it
comes to be a cause of rational that by by every man his
own supposed interest stand is pursued in preference, as the actual then
and of life as a governor, as in a man then speak of the desirable
end – viz. the maximum of felicity: desirable viz. in so far as
for sympathy – i.e. philanthropy is the motive.

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Date_1	1816-07-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	072	Info in main headings field	polit. deontology ch. 1
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