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1829. June M 3
Article on Utilitarianism337

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70.
In the same work, also
overthrown is the
indirectly opposite ipse
dixit principle. See
No. XX W. R.
2. Of the two opposites, the two rivals and
antagonists of the greatest happiness principle — remains
the indirectly opposite the ipse dixit principle. With this
principle also, in that same work, though under the
as yet inadequate and in that respect unapt name,
Mr. Bentham grappled, and deals by it in the manner
which may thus be seen. In short, he found in it a very
and a dozen or thereabouts were the different
forms in which he had to encounter it, as may have been
seen in No. XX. (or XX2?) of this our Review.

71.
Nonsense -- the progenitor
of ipse dixit
principle.
To the ipse dixit principle, not to
refuse to it it's due, no worse progenitor can by any the
most ill humoured adversary be ascribed to it than
the Genius of Nonsense.

72.
Its characteristic
properties -- Mischievousness
- absurdity -
inconsistency -
self-contradictoriness - all in
the extreme.
Mischievousness, absurdity,
inconsistency, self-contradictoriness — all in the extreme —
such are some of the properties which, under the name
of characteristic properties may without much hesitation
or danger of error, be ascribed to the principle of
asceticism: mischievousness, in exact proportion
to the extent in which application is made of it to
practice: for if this is not, what is? absurdity, for if in
this principle absurdity be not found, in whatever other
seat can it be? Suppose a man running his head
against a brick wall — to the operation by which this
exploit was performed — to any opinion, or say
principle, by which this same operation had been recommended
and produced, you would not to a question is this
opinion an absurd one? — find much difficulty in
answering in the affirmative. But of this opinion,
and this practical application of it, the
conformity to the principle of asceticism — of the principle
which presents to view the augmentation of unhappiness
as the proper or as a proper ultimate end of human action — is above dispute.
Absurd

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Date_1	1829-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	70-72
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	390	Info in main headings field	article on utilitarianism
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