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Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation – Contents
Ch. I. Of the principle of Utility
1. Mankind governed by Pain and Pleasure – 1.
2. Principle of Utility – what. 2
3. A principle, what – 2
4. Utility what 2
5. Interest of the community what – 2
6. Interest a factitious entity – 3
7. An action conformable to the principle of utility, what – 3
8. A measure of government conformable to the principal of Utility what? – 3
9. Laws or dictates of Utility what – 3
10. A partizan of the principle of Utility who. 3
11. Ought, ought not, right and wrong &c. how to be understood. – 4
12. To prove the rectitude of this principle is at once unnecessary and impossible. – 4
13. It has seldom however as yet, been consistently pursued. – 4
14. I can never be consistently combated – 5
15. Course to be taken for surmounting prejudices that may have been entertained against it. 5
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Ch. II. Principles adverse
Chap. II Principles adverse to that of Utility
1. All other principles than that of Utility must be wrong – 7
2. Way in which a principle may be wrong. – 7
3. Asceticisms origin of the word. 7
4. Principles of the Monks. – 7
5. Principle of Asceticism, what. 8
6. A partizan of the principle of Asceticism who – 8
7. This principle has had in some a philosophical in others a religious origin – 8
8. It has been carried farther by the religious party than by the philosophical. 9
9. The philosophical branch of it has had most influence among persons of education, the religious among the vulgar – 9.
10. The principle of asceticism has never been steadily applied by either party to the business of government. – 10
11. The principle of asceticism in its origin, was but that of Utility misapplied – 11
12. It can never be consistently pursued – 12
13. The principle of sympathy and antipathy what. 12
14. This is rather the negation of all principle than any thing positive. 12
15. Sentiments of a partizan of the principle of antipathy – 13
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Ch. II. Principles adverse.
16. The systems that have been formed concerning the standard of right and wrong are all reducible to this principle – 13
17. Various phrases that have served as the characteristic marks of many pretended systems. – 13
18. 1. Moral Sense – 13
19. 2. Common Sense 13
20. 3. Understanding 14
21. 4. Rule of Right 14
22. 5. Fitness of things – 14
23. 6. Law of Nature 14
24. 7. Law of Reason, Right Reason Natural Justice, Natural Equity, Good Order – 14
25. 8. Truth – 14
26. 9. Doctrine of Election 15
27. 10. Repugnancy to Nature 15
28. Mischief they produce 15
29. Whether Utility is actually the sole ground of all the approbation we ever bestow, is a different consideration. – 16
30. This principle will frequently coincide with that of utility – 16
31. This principle is most apt to err on the side of severity 17
32. But errs in some instances on the side of Unity 18
33. The theological principle what – not a separate principle. – 18
34. The principle of theology how reducible to one or another of the other three principles. 19.
35. Antipathy, let the actions it dictates be ever so right, is never of itself a right ground of action 19
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Ch. IV. Value.
Chap. IV. Value of a lot of Pleasure or Pain how to be measured.
1. Use of this chapter – 26
2. Circumstances to be taken into account in estimating the value of a pleasure or pain considered with reference to a single person, and by itself. – 26
3. – considered as connected with other pleasures or pains – 26
4. – considered with reference to a number of persons. 27.
5. Process for estimating the tendency of any act or event. – 27
6. Use of the foregoing process – 28
7. The same process applicable to good and evil, profit and mischief, and all other modifications of pleasure and pain. 28.
8. Conformity of mens practice to this theory. 28.
Ch. V. Pleasures and pains their kinds.
1. Pleasures and pains are either, 1. Simple: or 2. Complex. 30.
2. The simple pleasures enumerated. – 30
3. The simple pains enumerated – 30
4. Analitical view, why none given – 31
5. 1. Pleasures of sense enumerated. – 31
6. 2. Pleasures of wealth which are either of acquisition or of possession 31
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