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Logic or Ethics Ch. Object of Pursuit

1 §2. Can it fail to be

Pursuing the well being of my friend it is still my own that I pursue

§.2. Well-being can never cease or fail to be man's object

In the instance of any man well-being — his own well-being can it ever fail cease or
cease fail or cease to be the object — and in this shape or other
the sole ultimate object of his pursuit?

Nay cries an Objector but if this be so
then where is sympathy? where is benevolence? where
is sympathy? [Whereupon comes a (volley) of such insetalist
shelled out by the hands of rhetoric in all
her its gugist and most tender esteses]

Answer exactly where they were.

To deny the existence of this social affection would
be to argue talk in the bulk of all experience. Scarce in
the most brutal savage would they be found altogether
wanting.

But the pleasure I feel at the thoughts prospect of bestowing
pleasure on my friend, whose pleasure is it but mine
The pain which I feel at at under the sight or under the apprehension of surgery
my friend overwhelmed oppressed with pain, whose pain is it
but mine

If It from that external source neither any such pleasure nor any such
pain were felt by me, beneficence indeed I might
have — since there is not a self-regarding motive by which a course of action
having followed by that effect
is not capable of being
produced:
, but should I have any sympathy?

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	045	Info in main headings field	logic or ethics
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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