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1826. April May 15
Civil and Penal Code

The basis of this Code is the greatest happiness principle
the source from which all its arrangements are drawn
the standard or object of reference to which all its arrangements
are applied.

It is accordingly the all-directing principle.

By the By the greatest happiness principle understand that
which states as the proper object of endeavour to all persons
by whom the directive function with relation to the conduct
of themselves and the rest of the community in question
is assumed possessed and or exercised, the production of the
greatest hap possible quantity of happiness on the part of the greatest
number of the members of that same commuity.
Corresponding rule. Maximize the aggregate of happiness.
To maximize happiness on the part of all is to maximize good
and minimize evil on the part of each.
By Good is meant pleasure and or exemption fro pain, or the an efficient
cause of pleasure and exemption from pain.
By evil is meant pain or absence or loss of pleasure
or the efficient cause of pain or of the absence or loss of pleasure.
To maximize good and minimize equality evil equality
must at all times amongst all persons be maximized: for
1 or 2. Where pain is produced by loss then pleasure by gain: and
2 or 1. The greater the quantity of the matter of good a person has
the less is the addition made to the sum of his pleasure by
the addition of an instrument of pleasure.
By good understand here physical or say sensible good that is to say pleasure
&c as above: by evil physical or say sensible good pleasure
&c as above.
Moral good in so far as it means anything worth regarding
means nothing more than the efficient cause of physical good: human agency being regarded in that
moral evil, then an efficient cause of physical evil.

By the aggregate of all
human acts taken together
suppose no pain nor absence
of pleasure produced, they
could not whatsoever in
other respects was their
effects on quality, be with
propriety termed immoral
if they could, then would
no immorality in any shape be a proper object of disapprobation.

Identifier: | JB/068/037/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 68.
Date_1	1826-05-15	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-6
Box	068	Main Headings	civil code; penal code
Folio number	037	Info in main headings field	civil and penal code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	22232
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