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1830 Jany. 27
Pannomia or Penal Code
Ch. II
Good and Evil – their progress in a political State or other
community.
§. 1. Consideranda or say Subject matters of consideration in regard
to Good and evil.
2. Consideranda or Subject matters of requiring consideration in regard
to Good and Evil are then
1. Their condition or import as to existence and non-existence,
I. Their existential character or say character as
that mode of designation in regard to existence or say
logical character. This is either positive or negative.
Positive good is that which would assumes not the
existence of evil and which accordingly might have place
if there were no such thing as evil.
Negative Good is that which is constituted by the non-existence
of evil on the occasion in question.
3. So that Positive Evil is that which assumes not
the existence of Good, and which accordingly might have
place if there were no such thing as good.
II. Thus in regard to each quality
by good understand either pleasure or the absence or say on the
occasion in question, the non-existence of pain. Understand by Pleasure a positive
goodL absence of pain negative good.
By evil understand either pain or the absence or say, on
the occasion in question, the non-existence of pleasure.
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