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<head>1829 June. 2.</head> | |||
<head>Article on Utilitarianism.</head> | |||
<note>N.B The pages referred to are the<lb/>pages of the <del><hi rend="underline">original</hi></del> <hi rend="underline">copy.</hi></note> | |||
<head>1. - p.1.</head> | |||
<p>Locution principle of<lb/> | |||
utility & conjugates<lb/> | |||
history.<lb/></p> | |||
<head>2. - p1.</head> | |||
<p>First mention in Hume's<lb/> | |||
Essays - vague idea there<lb/> | |||
attached to it.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<head>3. - p.2.</head> | |||
<p>In Helvetius' Esprit<lb/> | |||
commencement of practical<lb/> | |||
application.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<head>4. - p2</head> | |||
<p>For pains & pleasures<lb/> | |||
scanty stock of denominations<lb/> | |||
devised by Helvetius<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<head>5. - p.3.</head> | |||
<p>In Hartley on Man<lb/> | |||
greater but still incomplete<lb/> | |||
number of species<lb/> | |||
mentioned.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<head>6. - p.3</head> | |||
<p>Greatest happiness of the<lb/> | |||
greatest number first<lb/> | |||
mentioned by Priestly<lb/> | |||
D<hi rend="superscript">0</hi>1762 to 1769<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<head>7. - p.4.</head> | |||
<p>Circulating Library at<lb/> | |||
Harper's Coffee House.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<head>8. - p.4</head> | |||
<p>D<hi rend="superscript">0</hi>1768 Mr Bentham's<lb/> | |||
last visit to Oxford<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<head>9. - p.5.</head> | |||
<p>From that phrase in<lb/> | |||
Priestley's pamphlet<lb/> | |||
J.B's principles of morality<lb/> | |||
determined.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<head>10. - p.5</head> | |||
<p>1776 J.B's Fragment on<lb/> | |||
Government<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<head>11. - p.6.</head> | |||
<p>1781 Introduction to<lb/> | |||
Morals & Legislation<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<head>12 - p.7.</head> | |||
<p>1817 J.B.'s Springs of<lb/> | |||
Action.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>B1</note> | |||
<head>13. - p.7.</head> | |||
<p>Dyslogistic & Eulogistic<lb/> | |||
names exhibited by J.B. | |||
</p> | |||
<note>B1.</note> | |||
<head>14. - p.8.</head> | |||
<p>J.B. and Lord Bacon <foreign>Fiat<lb/> | |||
experimentum</foreign> Lord B's<lb/> | |||
aphorism in physical<lb/> | |||
Science. <foreign>Fiat observatio</foreign><lb/> | |||
J.B.'s aphorism in<lb/> | |||
political Science. | |||
</p> | |||
<note>B2.</note> | |||
<head>15. - p.9.</head> | |||
<p>Legislation the making<lb/> | |||
a choice of evils.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>B3.</note> | |||
<head>16. - p.9.</head> | |||
<p>J.B's application of<lb/> | |||
greatest happiness principle -<lb/> | |||
non disappointment<lb/> | |||
principle | |||
</p> | |||
<note>B3</note> | |||
<head>17. - p10.</head> | |||
<p>Names by which the<lb/> | |||
principle has been designated,<lb/> | |||
in many points<lb/> | |||
inappropriate.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>C1</note> | |||
<head>18. - p.10</head> | |||
<p>Principle of utility misexpressiveness<lb/> | |||
of the term<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>C1</note> | |||
<head>19. - p.10.</head> | |||
<p>The word regarded as<lb/> | |||
calling for approbation of<lb/> | |||
every measure contributing<lb/> | |||
to an end whatever<lb/> | |||
that end be.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>C1</note> | |||
<head>20 - p.10.</head> | |||
<p>Consequence of the mistake<lb/> | |||
disapprobation supposed<lb/> | |||
to be called for to the<lb/> | |||
pursuit of pleasure.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>C1</note> | |||
<head>21. - p.10</head> | |||
<p>Substitution by J.B. of<lb/> | |||
the name<del><gap/></del> of <hi rend="underline">greatest</hi><lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline">happiness</hi> <hi rend="underline">principle</hi> to<lb/> | |||
that of principle of utility<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>C1.</note> | |||
<head>22. - p.11.</head> | |||
<p>Lady Holland's answer to<lb/> | |||
the principle of utility<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>C2</note> | |||
<head>23 - p.11</head> | |||
<p>Locke's misconceptions<lb/> | |||
1. That morals & politics<lb/> | |||
founded on the relation<lb/> | |||
between word and<lb/> | |||
word. 2. Narrow view<lb/> | |||
taken of pleasures and<lb/> | |||
pains<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>C<del>4</del>2.</note> | |||
<head>24. - p.12</head> | |||
<p>Adversaries to greatest<lb/> | |||
happiness principle.<lb/> | |||
1 Property trumpeting<lb/> | |||
principle.<lb/> | |||
2. The original contract.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>D1</note> | |||
<head>25. - p.12.</head> | |||
<p>Use made by misrulers<lb/> | |||
of the substitution of this<lb/> | |||
partial to the general<lb/> | |||
ends.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>D<del>2</del>1.</note> | |||
<head>26. - p.12.</head> | |||
<p>Corruptive oaths in<lb/> | |||
support of original<lb/> | |||
contract.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>D<del>2</del>1.</note> | |||
<head>27. - p.13.</head> | |||
<p>In J.B.'s mind the word<lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline">utility</hi> synonym is with<lb/> | |||
happiness principle,<lb/> | |||
owing to the use made<lb/> | |||
of it by Hume & Helvetius,<lb/> | |||
also Horace.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>E1.</note> | |||
<head>28. - p.14.</head> | |||
<p>Conjugates of utility -<lb/> | |||
utilitarian - utilitarianism. —<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>E2.</note> | |||
<head>29. - p.14.</head> | |||
<p>For expressing in a<lb/> | |||
word; happ<hi rend="superscript">ss</hi>. principle<lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline">eudaimonology</hi> would<lb/> | |||
do: if <add>so</add> custom must be<lb/> | |||
departed from in not<lb/> | |||
rendering it <hi rend="underline">endaemonology.</hi><lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>E2.</note> | |||
<head>30. - p.14.</head> | |||
<p>No opposit<hi rend="superscript">n</hi>. (in J.B's<lb/> | |||
mind) made to this<lb/> | |||
principle by the Tusculan<lb/> | |||
Questions, where<lb/> | |||
pain is said to be no<lb/> | |||
evil & virtue is happiness.—<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>F1.</note> | |||
<head>31. - p.15.</head> | |||
<p>To shew how virtue<lb/> | |||
contributes to happiness -<lb/> | |||
of use this done ever &<lb/> | |||
anon by J.B.—<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>F2</note> | |||
<head>32. - p.15.</head> | |||
<p>Would it relieve a<lb/> | |||
man <add>suffering</add> from gout or<lb/> | |||
stone to tell him he is<lb/> | |||
happy?<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>F2.</note> | |||
<head>33. - p.15.</head> | |||
<p>This nonsense talked by<lb/> | |||
the Stoics : Stoics who.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>F2.</note> | |||
<head>34. - p.16.</head> | |||
<p><hi rend="underline"><foreign>Ipse dixit</foreign></hi> equally commodious<lb/> | |||
with utility as<lb/> | |||
to conjugates - dixitists -<lb/> | |||
dixitical - dixiticism.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>G1.</note> | |||
<head>35. - p.16.</head> | |||
<p>In this respect perhaps<lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline">felicity</hi> better than<lb/> | |||
happiness - with the addit<hi rend="superscript">n</hi>.<lb/> | |||
of maximising<lb/> | |||
or maximization.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>G1.</note> | |||
<head>36. - p.17.</head> | |||
<p>People little aware<lb/> | |||
of importance of nomenclature<lb/> | |||
in planting<lb/> | |||
or disseminating ideas.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>G2.</note> | |||
<head>37. - p.17.</head> | |||
<p>J.B. more successful<lb/> | |||
husbandman in this<lb/> | |||
way than Roman Emperor -<lb/> | |||
See <hi rend="underline">international<lb/> | |||
codification</hi> & their<lb/> | |||
conjugates.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>G2.</note> | |||
<head>38. - p.18.</head> | |||
<p>As to want of appellative<lb/> | |||
see statute Book. At the<lb/> | |||
Union we had Kingdom<lb/> | |||
of Gr<hi rend="superscript">t</hi>. Brit<hi rend="superscript">n</hi>. & Ireland.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>G3.</note> | |||
<head>39. - p.18.</head> | |||
<p>For thus placing these<lb/> | |||
substantives in apposit<hi rend="superscript">n</hi>.<lb/> | |||
in Statute Book the Sovereign<lb/> | |||
power was adequate:<lb/> | |||
not so to establish<lb/> | |||
the <hi rend="underline">possession-indicating</hi><lb/> | |||
& <hi rend="underline">predication-effecting</hi><lb/> | |||
conjugates British & Irish<lb/> | |||
- the things signified by<lb/> | |||
them being different, as<lb/> | |||
religion, interests, affections.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>G3.</note> | |||
<head>40. - p.19.</head> | |||
<p>Seeing the inaptitude of<lb/> | |||
these composite appellatives<lb/> | |||
J.B. gave <hi rend="underline">Brithibernia</hi> which<lb/> | |||
presents no such idea<lb/> | |||
of repugnance as British<lb/> | |||
& Irish. The signs of the<lb/> | |||
things signified being melted<lb/> | |||
into one might have<lb/> | |||
served as a cement.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>G4.</note> | |||
<head>41. - p.20.</head> | |||
<p>J.B. gave these ideas to<lb/> | |||
a noble friend in a<lb/> | |||
situation to give them<lb/> | |||
<add>practical</add> effect: no such visible<lb/> | |||
result in consequence.<lb/> | |||
</p> | |||
<note>G<del>4</del>5.</note> | |||
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Copy. 1
1829 June. 2. Article on Utilitarianism.
N.B The pages referred to are the
pages of the original copy.
1. - p.1.
Locution principle of
utility & conjugates
history.
2. - p1.
First mention in Hume's
Essays - vague idea there
attached to it.
3. - p.2.
In Helvetius' Esprit
commencement of practical
application.
4. - p2
For pains & pleasures
scanty stock of denominations
devised by Helvetius
5. - p.3.
In Hartley on Man
greater but still incomplete
number of species
mentioned.
6. - p.3
Greatest happiness of the
greatest number first
mentioned by Priestly
D01762 to 1769
7. - p.4.
Circulating Library at
Harper's Coffee House.
8. - p.4
D01768 Mr Bentham's
last visit to Oxford
9. - p.5.
From that phrase in
Priestley's pamphlet
J.B's principles of morality
determined.
10. - p.5
1776 J.B's Fragment on
Government
11. - p.6.
1781 Introduction to
Morals & Legislation
12 - p.7.
1817 J.B.'s Springs of
Action.
B1
13. - p.7.
Dyslogistic & Eulogistic
names exhibited by J.B.
B1.
14. - p.8.
J.B. and Lord Bacon Fiat
experimentum Lord B's
aphorism in physical
Science. Fiat observatio
J.B.'s aphorism in
political Science.
B2.
15. - p.9.
Legislation the making
a choice of evils.
B3.
16. - p.9.
J.B's application of
greatest happiness principle -
non disappointment
principle
B3
17. - p10.
Names by which the
principle has been designated,
in many points
inappropriate.
C1
18. - p.10
Principle of utility misexpressiveness
of the term
C1
19. - p.10.
The word regarded as
calling for approbation of
every measure contributing
to an end whatever
that end be.
C1
20 - p.10.
Consequence of the mistake
disapprobation supposed
to be called for to the
pursuit of pleasure.
C1
21. - p.10
Substitution by J.B. of
the name of greatest
happiness principle to
that of principle of utility
C1.
22. - p.11.
Lady Holland's answer to
the principle of utility
C2
23 - p.11
Locke's misconceptions
1. That morals & politics
founded on the relation
between word and
word. 2. Narrow view
taken of pleasures and
pains
C42.
24. - p.12
Adversaries to greatest
happiness principle.
1 Property trumpeting
principle.
2. The original contract.
D1
25. - p.12.
Use made by misrulers
of the substitution of this
partial to the general
ends.
D21.
26. - p.12.
Corruptive oaths in
support of original
contract.
D21.
27. - p.13.
In J.B.'s mind the word
utility synonym is with
happiness principle,
owing to the use made
of it by Hume & Helvetius,
also Horace.
E1.
28. - p.14.
Conjugates of utility -
utilitarian - utilitarianism. —
E2.
29. - p.14.
For expressing in a
word; happss. principle
eudaimonology would
do: if so custom must be
departed from in not
rendering it endaemonology.
E2.
30. - p.14.
No oppositn. (in J.B's
mind) made to this
principle by the Tusculan
Questions, where
pain is said to be no
evil & virtue is happiness.—
F1.
31. - p.15.
To shew how virtue
contributes to happiness -
of use this done ever &
anon by J.B.—
F2
32. - p.15.
Would it relieve a
man suffering from gout or
stone to tell him he is
happy?
F2.
33. - p.15.
This nonsense talked by
the Stoics : Stoics who.
F2.
34. - p.16.
Ipse dixit equally commodious
with utility as
to conjugates - dixitists -
dixitical - dixiticism.
G1.
35. - p.16.
In this respect perhaps
felicity better than
happiness - with the additn.
of maximising
or maximization.
G1.
36. - p.17.
People little aware
of importance of nomenclature
in planting
or disseminating ideas.
G2.
37. - p.17.
J.B. more successful
husbandman in this
way than Roman Emperor -
See international
codification & their
conjugates.
G2.
38. - p.18.
As to want of appellative
see statute Book. At the
Union we had Kingdom
of Grt. Britn. & Ireland.
G3.
39. - p.18.
For thus placing these
substantives in appositn.
in Statute Book the Sovereign
power was adequate:
not so to establish
the possession-indicating
& predication-effecting
conjugates British & Irish
- the things signified by
them being different, as
religion, interests, affections.
G3.
40. - p.19.
Seeing the inaptitude of
these composite appellatives
J.B. gave Brithibernia which
presents no such idea
of repugnance as British
& Irish. The signs of the
things signified being melted
into one might have
served as a cement.
G4.
41. - p.20.
J.B. gave these ideas to
a noble friend in a
situation to give them
practical effect: no such visible
result in consequence.
G45.
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