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Interests and Duties Preface or Introd

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1. Mans objec Practical applic

Mans Interests and Duties &c

Preface or Introduction

This work has for its object the placing of mans interests
and duties in every situation matter of private life in as clear and
satisfactory a point of view as possible.

To this purpose it is necessary to bring to view the relation
between interest and duty, the relation between both of them on the one
hand and Virtue and Vice on the other, together including with the initial
relation between several intermediate objects [the number of
which is continually and necessarily occurring in every book which takes the
field of morals for its subject.]

One thing which there will be occasion On this occasion which it will be necessary to shew is that
it never is to any practical purpose a mans duty to do that which
it is his interest not to do: and that accordingly all laws in so
far as they have for their object the happiness of those concerned, have for their endeavour to
cause that it to be for a man's interest to do that which they make
it his duty to do: and that thus far interest and duty and interest and thus to bring his interest and his duty and his interest into coincidence
are coincident objects coincide.

That a man ought to sacrifice his interest to his duty is a
very common phrase position, that he do such & such a one has
on such or such an occasion sacrificed his interest to his duty is a very common assertion
But when both interest and duty are considered in their broadest
sense it will be seen that in the general line of life the act of
sacrifice is neither possible nor so much as desirable: that it
can not take place, and that if it were to have place, the
sum total of the happiness of mankind would not be augmented by it.

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Object of this work
rendering mens interests
and duties in private
life clear.

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necessary to be
shewn
1. Relation between interest
and duty.
2 — between both do.
and Virtue and Vice
3. Relation between

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it is his interest
not to do: accordingly
laws have for their
object the making
a mans interest coincide
with which
with his duty

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That in the general
line of life a
man should sacrifice
his interest to his duty
is neither practically
nor with reference
to the sum of human happiness
desirable

Identifier: | JB/014/232/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1819-06-11	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	232	Info in main headings field	interests and duties
Image	001	Titles	man's interests and duties &c / preface or introduction
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	4995
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