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Conscience

Conscience – is a thing of fictitious existence – supposed to occupy a seat in
the mind. A conscientious person is one who having made to himself
a rule of conduct steadily abides by it. In the common use of the phrase
it is implied that his rule of conduct is the correct one. But only in so
far as his rule of conduct is consistent with the principles laid down of utility,
can his conscientiousness be deemed virtuous. Whenever his conscientiousness
takes a direction opposed to the general well being it is pernicious in the
very proportion of its influence.

Good & evil conscience are sometimes used to represent the tribunal to before which
a man's mind submits his own tries the merits of his own actions in his
own mind – & the recompense or punishment which he attaches to
those actions. A good conscience is the award of favorable opinion which
the man entertains of his own conduct, – an evil conscience is the unfavorable
decision of a man on his own conduct. But the value of the judgment
given must wholly depend on its being subservient to, – or rather on
its being an application of the greatest happiness principle.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	225	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	conscience
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f84
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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