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26 Oct. 1814
Logic
15 Novr 1814. What more shall be added?
Obligation being thus explained shewn, the idea of this choice is displeasure
particularly when for as the or regarded
as the cause . Thus by many eyes have been shut against the
origin: been subject & obligation an 8vo volume by which the subject
is compleatly .
VIII. IX. Obligation and Right – Explanation of these moral
including fictitious entities, and of their relation to
one another, by th shewing how they are constituted by the
expectation of eventual good and evil, i.e. of pleasure
and or pain or both as the case may be to be administered
by the force of one or more of the five sanctions, as above:
viz. the physical, the popular or moral, the political including
the legal, the religious, and the sanctionative form of sympathy.
Of either the word obligation or the word right, if regarded as flowing
from any other source, the sound or mere sound without
unjust signification, and the notion of or by which real
existence in any shape is attributed to the thing, their ,
is but not better than one effusion of .
When they have not this meaning they have no meaning
at all: either they have this or their meaning, as things have .
Obligation in so far as produced by pain it has pain for its cause being an
evil in every
In every case of obligation. Thus , obligation
clearer choice between the pleasure as exempt
from pain by which
These and Simple as is this exposition, or rather
because it is so simple many there are to when it is an unwelcome one. By it a of the existence sort if chosen is in every case
shewn to have place: a choice between the good or evil
that will have place in the case of where conformity to the obligation has place the obligation
is conformed to fulfilled, and the good and or evil which has place
in the case where it is not conformed non conformity has place. In a Peculiar degree is this
idea of choice repugnant to their feelings in so far as the obligation
is regarded as having the religious sanction, i.e. the real or supposed will of God for its official cause.
For the official cause what they look out for is something by which choice shall be altogether be excluded.
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