xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr">

Transcribe Bentham: A Collaborative Initiative

From Transcribe Bentham: Transcription Desk

Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts

JB/550/026/001

Jump to: navigation, search
Completed

Click Here To Edit

6 Novr 1814
Logic

Popular – for the

III. In the case of the political including the legal sanction
the source or root of the pleasure or pain regarded as
eventually about to have place is in the good or its offices
of that portion of mankind in whose hand, who in the community political state in question
have at their the powers of government are lodged,
and who in consequence have at their disposal an
unlimited share proportion of the matter of good and of the
matter of evil, employable capable of being employed
and applied at pleasure in the character of matter of
reward and matter of punishment.+ + §. V. Matter

The case and only case in which the adjunct term legal is applicable
to this sanction to the species sort of sanction here in
question is that in which it under the authority of
the legislative department of government the matter of
good and evil is disposed of and applied in the express
and declared view of its operating in the character of
matter of reward or matter of punishment, thereby
giving to or endeavouring to give direction to those
to whom the matter itself in the prospect and expectation of it actually or in the prospect it applicate is
made of it. In this department it is principally to the avowed purpose
of giving direction such to
human men's conduct in
the character of subjects
that direction
by which they are
made to abstain from
such acts principally
positive acts as are
regard treated on the
footing of offences principally
in consideration
of the mischief of which
they are regarded as
productive or threatening
to a production
or the that
the matter of good and evil is applied, and that accordingly principally
in the shape of matter of punishment. that the matter of good and
evil
But in so far as in the shape of the matter of
wealth or in any other shape it is applied in such
although it be not declaredly in the character of rewrd or in
that of punishment, application is made of it in the
by persons invested with the powers belonging to the administrative
department of government, it the matter
of good and evil operates not less in this than in the
other case the power matter of good and evil is capable of
being ready to operate in the character of a sanction in such sort
as to give to mans conduct in the character of subjects such direction
as


Identifier: | JB/550/026/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 550.

Date_1

1814-11-06

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

550

Main Headings

Folio number

026

Info in main headings field

Logic

Image

001

Titles

Category

Text sheet

Number of Pages

Recto/Verso

Page Numbering

Penner

Jeremy Bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

Jeremy Bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Jeremy Bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

Box Contents

UCL Home » Transcribe Bentham » Transcription Desk