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Ch. VIII General Rules
§.2 Irreparable evil
☞ Topics then breaks up as
1. of expence
2 Satisfaction and compensation the modes
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Irreparable evil
1 absolutely 2 relatively
Art. Irreparable evil may be such 1. absolutely
or 2. relatively: absolutely; to wit in its own nature, relative
laid to the nature of men in general: relatively; to evil
relative laid to the condition of the particular individuals or individuals
concerned. Death is so in its own nature.: pecuniary
evil, pecuniary loss is in its own nature in a particular
degree more easily reparable than evil in any other shape
relatively, evil to a small amount be a comparatively
inconsiderable amount may be comparable relative laid to
the individual or individuals concerned.
2
Evil irreparable
1 in itself 2 in the
way of equivalent
Evil which whether absolutely or relatively considered
is irreparable in itself, may when relatively considered not
be irreparable in the way of equivalent.
3
Death the most
extensively irreparable
Death is the only sort which shape in which on the part of
the immediate sufferer is certainly and universally irreparable.
4
No evil but what
may be compensationally
reparable.
In the way of and by means of compensation
there is no evil to which it may not happen to be in
the instance of the individual in question reparable in the
way of equivalent.
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Evil reparable &
repaired where to the
individual it is indifferent
to sustain or not the
evil followed by the
compensation
An evil is be it In the of
Relation laid to the individual in question, an evil is
reparable and exactly repaired when after having sustained suffered the
evil and received the compensation it would be a
matter of indifference whether to receive the like evil
coupled with the like compensation, or not.
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Every person in his
own case sole judge
of reparability
What is manifest is — that to no person other
than the individual itself can it be
whether in his instance between an evil sustained and a
benefit received on account of it may compensate his
plan or not.
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