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8. At this rate the rectitude of the self same a measure must be
in the self-same circumstances- may change fifty
times a day: if that means of sentiments which is was to be
the standard of all other means of sentiments should change
so often Chillingworth was educated in the Protestant religion & persevered in it till such a time - Till
then the Protestant Religion was the true one. He
then changed his opinion and the Catholic Religion
became the true one.
9. When such a man has been braught to own that
he knows of no other method of defending his opinion
where by making his own sentiments the true &
only standard for the sentiments of all mankind his
error it may be presumed will appear pretty apparent
to mankind in general if it does although it should not to
himself.
NOTE
From P. Ch - I p.7 10. It is curious to observe the variety of the intentions have
been set to work but upon to and the variety of phrases they
have had brought forward recourse to & in order to conceal from the world and if possible from himself this very natural general ( )
and therefore pardonable very self- sufficiency. the phrases different, but the principle the same [ One man says
that he a thing made on purpose to kill him & c: and that
Moral Sense When a man has conceived a distaste against the principle of utility, because that principle is against some prejudice which he will not part with but has nothing left for it but it is called his moral sense teaches him what is right & wrong.]
and then he goes to work at his case and says such a thing is
right, and such a thing is wrong - why? because my moral sense says it is.
2. Another man (retaining the and putting for comment) says that common sense teaches him
what is right and wrong; meaning by common sense
Common Sense a sense of sense based on other that is proposed by
all mankind: the sense of those where sense is not
the same as the authors being struck out of the account
as being not worth the taking. This does better than
the other: first a moral sense being a thing a man may feel about for a moral sense a good
while, & not be able to find why such :
Understanding 3. Another man says that his understanding is the
source of his ideas of right and wrong; and that his understanding
informs him what is right and wrong with so and so that all good and wise men think as he does
and possibility of a mistake: and that if other man's
understandings about this matter differ in any point from his so much the worse for them :it is
a sure sign they are either defective or corrupt.
But common sense is as old in the a man would be ashamed to be thought not to have as much of it as his neighbour.
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101 Of principles adverse
of false principles principles
M. Beccaria has given a brief but interesting
(recapitualtion) catalogue of the false principles
that have been set up in competition with
the principle of utility: grounds of so many symptoms
of false reasoning in politics and morals.
A system or order of reasoning in politics and morals
may be false in two ways - either by
having nothing to do with the principle of utility
or by maing an partial erroneous application of it. By
an partial erroneous application of it I mean the taking of one making up only a
false account of the profit and loss, the happiness and
or sorrow particular taken into the account
of unhappiness the happiness for which the rule or
measure in question has a tendency tends to introduce
into the community: a at length exaggerating or unduly deprecating the value of this or that article on the one side or the other: inserting articles
from it that have no place in the account, or omitting
articles that have.
Go on and show how those marked by Beccaria as being
false are so : by being partial : others such as
& Price's by being fundamentally inapplicable.
Of the principle of antipathy considered as a
ground and measure of punishment
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The principle of antipathy considered as a
measure of punishment errs sometimes on the side must frequently perhaps
of excess but not infrequently on that of defect.
With regard to the application of punishment the action
to which it could apply punishment is sometimes</del> in some instances it would dictate the applying punishment to actions to which upon the principle of utility there would be a sufficient reason for applying any but in others it is against the applying it to actions to which upon the principle of utility then would require it to be appplied. With regard to quantity
In the matter of punishment The punishment which it dictates is sometimes more
than is dicated by the principle of utility; the
offence (in the circumstances in question) being more
odious than in proportion to it;s mischieviousness. But
it is also sometimes not so much: the offence in the circumstances.
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