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INTROD. Ch. I. Of the Principle of Utility.

The legitimate consequences of it, should any of them prove
obnoxious are not chargeable upon me. I had it from
Epicurus, from Carneades, from Horace, from Helvetius,
from Beccaria. My function All that remains for me is only to apply it to
particular cases as they come under review.

This then I assume as a postulatum. If it be denied
me, I confess I shall be very altogether much at a loss to prove
it. Nor will I attempt go about to prove it in this essay: which
is but a small part detached from an entire system
of legal policy of the whole of which were it reared finished constructed this axiom would
form the basis. I will not, I say, in this place, go
about to prove it: nor shall I easily be brought to
think it necessary. I could not easily have thought it
had been new to any one, if I had did not remember'd that
before I had read Helvetius it was new even to myself.
I could not have thought it possible when once announced
to controvert it; if I had not seen thru by whom it has
been controverted. Two short questions may in this place
answer the purpose of all arguments

[Αντ’ ασπιδων απασων
Αντ’ εγχεων απαντων]

Supposing (without any foundation) that any other than
his own happiness ought to be the end of of any individuals the policy, what
motive has he to pursue it? Supposing (without any foundation)
that any other than the happiness of the community ought




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100

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114

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of the principle of utility

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004

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text sheet

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4

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recto

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f1 / f2 / f3 / f4

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jeremy bentham

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jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

caroline vernon

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jeremy bentham

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32130

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